台灣高中英語教師電腦恐懼之研究

An Analysis of High School EFL Teachers' Computer Phobia in Taiwan

蔡旻翰(Min-Han Tsai)

指導教授 ： 陳姿青

朝陽科技大學/人文暨社會學院/應用英語系/碩士(2015年)

摘要

電腦科技及新穎數位裝置促使了多項教育應用和教學方法的改變，然而，學校添購設置電腦軟硬體設備用以促進教室教學效能之餘，仍有許多教師不願意去使用或對電腦科技用於教學感到焦慮。這種現象可稱之為電腦恐懼、科技緊張症、電腦厭惡或是電腦焦慮(Yaghi & Abu-Saba, 1998; Choi, Ligon, & Ward, 2002; Wang, K., Shu & Tu, 2008; Thorpe & Brosnan, 2007)。本研究目的為調查台灣高中英語教師之電腦恐懼，並針對教師的電腦恐懼程度和個人背景變項之間做關係比較。此研究採問卷調查方式進行，問卷之產生為根據Rosen & Weil於1992年設計的電腦恐懼測量問卷所改編而來。資料收集後進行Cronbach’s Alpha、項目分析和KMO分析以檢定出問卷之信效度，並以此為根據新增或刪減問卷項目，用以研擬出正式問卷，於正式問卷數據回收後，進行多變量變異數分析。研究結果顯示，許多高中電腦設備是充足的，但英語教師並沒有將其融入於課程中，另外，大部分的教師為低度到中度的電腦焦慮，研究中也發現年齡、教學年資及學校位置為顯著相關之變數，年齡較高的教師有電腦恐懼偏高及負面態度之現象，然而即使，台灣高中英語教師電腦恐懼為低程度，台灣高中英語教師電腦融入課程之頻率卻偏低，歸究其原因為多為超時授課所導致，透過本研究，可進一步了解台灣高中英語教師對於電腦恐懼及電腦使用情形之概況。

關鍵字

英語為外國語言 ； 高中教師 ； 電腦焦慮 ； 電腦恐懼 ； 台灣

並列摘要

The rapid development of computer technologies and novel digital devices has caused changes in various educational applications and classroom teaching methods. However, in many countries, even though computer hardware and software are available to facilitate classroom instruction, the teachers are unwilling to use or are anxious about using such technology. This psychological condition has been referred to in many ways, such as computer phobia, technostress, cyberphobia, computer aversion, technophobia, and computer anxiety (Yaghi & Abu-Saba, 1998; Choi, Ligon, & Ward, 2002; Wang, K., Shu & Tu, 2008; Thorpe & Brosnan, 2007). This study aimed to investigate the computer phobia experienced by high school EFL teachers and to identify the relationships between computer phobia and individual teachers’ demographic variables. Data were collected from different Taiwanese teachers using a revised version of the Measuring Technophobia Survey by Rosen and Weil (1992). After the data were collected, Cronbach’s Alpha, item analysis and KMO analysis were used to construct reliable measurement scales, to improve existing scales, and to evaluate the reliability and validity of scales in use. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and MANOVA for formal study. This study attempted to complete the computer phobia literature by investigating the levels of computer phobia experienced by Taiwanese EFL high school teachers and to ascertain if self-reported computer phobia is associated with their demographic variables. The results indicated that: (1) many computer facilities are available at high school, but are not being integrated into the curriculum by teachers; (2) most teachers have had a low to moderate computer phobia, with significant positive correlations found between computer phobia and three demographic variables: age, years of teaching experience, and school location. This indicated that older teachers tend to have higher levels of computer phobia and a negative attitude toward computers. The study also found that high school EFL teachers’ teaching loads are rather heavy and that this is the reason why computers are rarely used, even if there are low levels of computer phobia among high school EFL teachers.

並列關鍵字

High School Teachers ； Computer Anxiety ； Computer Phobia ； EFL ； Taiwan

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