SOLMAZ, Osman Dicle Üniversitesi - Ziya Gökalp Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , BEKLEYEN, Nilüfer Dicle Üniversitesi - Ziya Gökalp Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey

THE USE OF THE INTERNET BY HIGH SCHOOL EFL TEACHERS FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

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This article reports the findings of a descriptive study that aimed to examine the websites used by high school EFL teachers for professional purposes. The study included high school English Language Teachers working in the city centre of Diyarbakır in the spring semester of 2010-2011. Forty-five English teachers working at the Private High Schools and Anatolian High Schools in the city were taken as samples. A questionnaire prepared by the researchers was used to collect data. The results revealed that the language teachers mostly followed resource websites, forums and social networks, dictionaries, magazines, newspapers and blogs respectively. A list of the websites that are most commonly followed by EFL teachers is also presented in the study.

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language teaching and the Internet , language teachers , professional development

dicle university journal of social sciences institute

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