EFL Teachers' Gender Differentiations in their Sense of Technophobia and Technophilia

The increasing development of the new technologies which are called modern technologies is changing the world's and people's needs. Some opportunities and comforts for the future are provided by emerging new technologies although they may also change an individual’s norms and patterns of behavior which may lead to more emotional effects such as anxiety, fears, and sadness. Such feelings lead to the outburst of the two important opposed terms, namely, technophobia and technophilia which are considered to be the aims of the current study’s researchers to deal with. More specifically, this study was conducted to explore any significant effect of gender on Iranian EFL teachers’ perceptions of technophobia and technophilia. To this aim, ۲۰۰ Iranian EFL teachers were invited to fill out Technophobia and Technophilia Questionnaire (Martínez-Córcoles, Teichmann, & Murdvee, ۲۰۱۷). An independent sample t-test was run to analyze the data. The results showed that although there were no significant gender differences in teachers’ technophilia, there was a significant difference in teachers’ technophobia between male and female teachers favoring females. These findings can have significant implications for all the practitioners in the field of education

کلیدواژه ها:

Computer Anxiety ، EFL Teachers ، Technology ، Technophilia ، Technophobia