Challenges to digitize the writing classroom : teachers' perspectives

Abstract EN

Playing a crucial role in language learning, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) seized the spotlight during the last two decades.

Accordingly, researchers' traditional focal point has always targeted the way learners perceive CMC.

However, this study examines EFL teachers' attitudes towards using CMC to obtain a closer view of the challenges they encounter when using technology to teach writing.

The research opts for a descriptive method wherein a questionnaire was architected to 26 teachers of writing at Badji Mokhtar University, Algeria.

The findings indicated that technical training, students' potentials, and lack of material impede the integration of CMC features in the writing classroom.

In light of the results, some pedagogical recommendations were conferred.