Abstract:
This research aimed at examining the perceptions and attitudes of EFL
instructors at preparatory schools in Turkey toward deployment of technology
considering the factors of teachers‟ gender, nationality and perceptions of cultural
relevance of computers. The data were gathered from 100 EFL instructors currently
educating in preparatory classes of several Universities in Turkey. The current data
were collected utilizing the Teachers‟ Attitudes toward Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) Scale. This scale was organized by employing a
5-point Likert scale that extended from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The
acquired quantitative data were shaped by the analyzing through the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 26.0) software. A one-sample t-test was
conducted to evaluate the given mean score on ICT scale. The findings of the present
study revealed that instructors‟ attitudes toward computer usage were considerably
more positive than the test value. Subsequently, female and male educators‟ attitude
scores toward computer usage were not significantly different based on gender. On
the other hand, Turkish instructors‟ attitudes were substantially more positive than
non-Turkish ones. In addition, the educators‟ perceptions of computer attributes are
high. Lastly, instructors perceived the usage of computers in preparatory classes as
culturally relevant. Regarding the results of the study, some restrictions and
suggestions for further investigations were introduced
