THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTEGRATION OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Modern information and communication technologies have become an inseparable part of our lives. They affect most sectors of human activities including education and the ability to use them effectively is a necessity for almost everyone in today's information society. Focusing on foreign languages, educational technologies represent a huge benefit to both foreign language teachers and students on a variety of aspects, such as activation and motivation of students, facilitation of the work of teachers and students, and many others. In spite of that, although most educational institutions are adequately equipped with educational technologies there are still certain reasons why these technologies remain beyond the interest of some teachers. The paper focuses on awareness and attitudes of foreign language teachers to using educational technologies in their lessons. Namely, the aim is to analyse the effectiveness of integration of educational technologies in teaching foreign languages as perceived subjectively by the target group consisting of language teachers of selected secondary vocational schools and grammar schools in the Czech Republic. A questionnaire is used as the tool for the survey. The data are analysed and processed using quantitative methods.