Online English Teaching and Learning: The Magic Between Learners' Academic Motivation and Teachers' Information Communication Technology Competence

Abstract

The rapid development of information communication technology (ICT) has benefited various fields to some extent. Education, as one of the fields most closely related to high-tech, naturally encourages teachers to widely apply cutting-edge technologies in teaching practice. Affected by the COVID-19 that began in 2019, online teaching has been widely carried out in all countries. As one of the countries with the largest number of learners in the world, China has conducted a large scale of online teaching. In the context of online teaching, whether learners' academic motivation is influenced by teachers’ ICT competence has always been a concern for teachers. Therefore, this study collected relevant data from 349 Chinese EFL learners to figure out the relationship between learners’ academic motivation and teachers’ ICT competence perceived by learners. Results of the study indicated that learners’ academic motivation were moderately influenced by teachers’ ICT competence they perceived. Moreover, most participants showed positive attitude to their teachers’ ICT competence. Practical implications could be concluded; for instance, researchers may pay more attention to the combination of ICT and teaching in order to make teachers’ presentation of ICT competence more perceivable.