A STUDY OF TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (TPK) AMONG UNIVERSITY ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTORS: A CASE STUDY OF GUILAN UNIVERSITIES INSTRUCTORS

Technology plays a critical role for teachers' teaching practice. To be successful in their career, teachers need to develop themselves in pedagogy and technology. The present research investigated university english language instructors' technological and pedagogical knowledge in guilan azad and state universities. A researcher-developed questionnaire was utilized. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were achieved through expert opinion and cronbach alpha, respectively. Having collected the data, a detailed descriptive and inferential statistics of the findings were presented. The two constructs of the research instruments, namely technology and pedagogy were separately analyzed through independent samples t test and a one-way anova for hypotheses testing that generally revealed a difference between the instructors' use of the constructs regarding their age, gender, major, and field of study. However, it was found that the instructors' use of the two constructs was the same in some cases.