Exploring palestinian and Spanish teachers' perspectives on using online computer games in learning english vocabulary

Abstract

In recent years, the use of online computer games has become more wide spread among students and this has helped many of them to learn and practice the English language but teachers' opinions on using this tool is still unclear. This study aims to discover EFL teachers' perspectives toward using online computer games in learning English, and evaluate whether teachers' perspectives are affected by their nationality and the independent variables: gender, age, academic qualification and number of years teaching. In order to achieve the research aims Mixed methods were used: a questionnaire and an interview. The questionnaire was distributed among 20 teachers, 10 teachers from Granada, Spain and 10 teachers from Salfit, Palestine and the interview was conducted separately with the same teachers. It was shown that there is an apparent contradiction since teachers a have positive opinion on using online computer games, but they do not use them in their classrooms.