Preferences of Primary School Teachers and Students for Electronic Technology in Literacy Language Learning: Implications for English Language Teaching

Abstract

This article aims to present the results of an analysis of the need for literacy teaching materials for appropriate learning for the independent curriculum. The data in this article were collected through unstructured interviews with ten teachers and 30 grade five elementary school students in DKI Jakarta. The data were processed using the NVivo 12 application as descriptive analysis data. The objects in the study were 1) educational attainment, 2) teaching materials used by teachers, and 3) the needs of educators and students in terms of increasing literacy. The findings reveal that teachers and students need fun teaching materials that are displayed with images and can be accessed anywhere, both at home and at school. They also need to use technology as teaching and learning media. Thus, new teaching materials that accommodate all of those aspects are very necessary.