Belief, Knowledge and Expectations on Language Instruction Via ICT: A Close/Critical Look by Experts

Information Communications Technology (ICT) has been approached with hesitancy in relation to personal expectations, knowledge and beliefs. Belief is interwoven with expectations and knowledge, as well as judgments, decisions, perceptions, values and opinions. As ICT applications, computer assisted language learning packages lack scrutiny by experts in both language instruction and computer technologies. This qualitative study strives for gathering data on the evaluation of such packages via professors' belief, knowledge and expectations on such technology. Therefore, a group of 5 experts in foreign language teaching and a group of 4 experts on instructional technologies gave evaluations in relation to their belief, knowledge and expectations. The results indicate that such applications are believed to possess both efficient and inefficient aspects that need to be addressed for the betterment of individualized learning.