This document outlines a research project on the negative effects of limited access to instructional technology in the English Language Major at Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador. The researchers are investigating how limited technology access affects students' learning processes. They will analyze the types of technologies currently used and competencies developed by teachers and students. The goal is to identify the consequences of limited access to instructional technology and improve technology implementation to accelerate learning and develop students' competencies for the modern workforce.

1. Research Project
Researchers:
Deisy Aracely Bautista
Delmy Elizabeth Fuentes Núñez
Morena Verónica Herrera Araujo
Daysi Nohemy Rivera Lovato

2. TOPIC.
The technology available for the teaching learning process
in
the
English
Language
Tecnológica de El Salvador.
Major
at
Universidad

3. RESEARCH TITLE.
The negative effects of the limited access of
instructional technology in the teaching learning
process in the English Language Major at Universidad
Tecnológica.

4. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM.
It is of great importance that students from the English Language Major at
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador know how to manage technological
resources in order to increase their competences; however for different
circumstances they cannot do it since they do not have real contact with this
technology,
besides
the
appropriate
technology
is
limited.
As
consequence, students do not posses well developed competences necessary for
their development and well performance in a real working world that is why the
researchers present the problem the negative effect of the limited access of
instructional technology in the teaching learning process in the English language
major at Universidad Tecnológica.

5. RESEARCH QUESTION.
In what manner the limited access to instructional
technology affect students’ learning process?

6. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES.
GENERAL OBJECTIVE.
To identify the consequences of the limited access of
instructional technology in the teaching learning process of
the English Language Major.

7. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
To specify what type of instructional technology is
currently used in the English Language Major.
To analyze what type of competences the teachers and
students have developed through the use of current
technology.

8. JUSTIFICATION.
The research is focused to give the necessary importance of implementation
and improvement of High technology in the teaching learning process of the
English Language Major. Adequate instructional technology is considered to
accelerate and improve learning on a number of fronts. So, the learning
activities should be reoriented and reformulated, from the manual source
centered to the open source ones. In this way the teaching learning process
can be improved, the possible weakness can be vanished in order to guarantee
a better knowledge acquisition and more developed competences of students.

9. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.
 INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR TEFL.
 EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
 ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAJOR.

10. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
“Instructional Technology is the theory and practice
of design, development, utilization, management and
evaluation of processes and resources for learning.”
(Seels & Richey, 1994, p. 1).

11. The use of technology in English as a foreign language
(EFL)
learning
and
teaching
includes
films, radio, televisions, language laboratories, videos and
computers.
Computer and its attached language learning program could
provide second language learners more independence from
classroom.

12. ADVANTAGES OF INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNOLOGY.
• Technology facilitates the students’ ability to make personal
connections with others and provides opportunities to focus on
improve their competences.
• Second language learners can also communicate with people
they never met before and interact with their own teachers or
classmates.

13. • English language learners use computers, software programs
to check their work and correct themselves, improve their
language
skills;
use
Internet,
e-mails
to
search
information, join in threats, publish their work, read
technology texts, communicate each other even worldwide.

14. DISADVANTAGES OF
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
•
Technology has also affected humans in classroom
education. Since technology has been introduced as a
medium for teaching back in 1900s, it has gradually
replaced the human teachers and now students mostly
rely on computers, television and other electronic
mediums.

15. EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNOLOGY.
Technology has led to increased data from students on a regular basis to track
progress toward meeting benchmarks as well as track their progress throughout
their school careers (Halverson & Smith, 2010). Nelson, Palonsky, and McCarthy
(2010) stated that students today need to develop “technological knowledge, skills,
and attitudes” in order to become successful members of society. Students are
more engaged in learning when technology is involved, and technology can aid in
learning being more tailored to specific learners’ needs (Nelson, Palonsky, &
McCarthy, 2010).

16. ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAJOR.
The study of the English Language Major allows to analyze and
evaluate the language from the point of view: phonological, syntactic,
morphological, semantic and lexical as in human communication.
To complete this aspect, it is necessary that the functions of teaching,
research and outreach, are ideal components in the teaching-learning
process for the acquisition of the language.