The Great God of the Future: the Views of Current and Future English Teachers on the Place of IT in Literacy

Abstract

Based on a small but representative study it appears that, in contrast to the past and to some current perceptions, the majority of student teachers and about half of serving teachers of English now welcome information technology (IT) in English and see it as central to the literacy of all pupils. Some current teachers of English remain ambivalent about IT but the general trend is toward a broader definition of literacy in English that gives significant, if not yet equal, value to electronic text alongside the printed word.

• English teaching
• information technology
• student teachers
• mentors
• literacy