A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS' INFORMATION LITERACY ON THE QUALITY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN YUNNAN, CHINA

Abstract

The objectives of the study were 1): to study the level of language teachers' information literacy; 2): to study the level of teaching quality; 3): to study the impact of language teachers' information literacy on teaching quality. The study was conducted on all elementary school language teachers in Kunming, Yunnan, the research instrument was a questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed by convenience sampling, both online and offline, 385 questionnaires were distributed and 385 were validly answered, with a validity rate of 100%. The results of the study showed that language teachers' information literacy had a significant positive impact on teaching quality. Specifically, the four dimensions of language teachers' information literacy-information ethics, information thinking, language information technology use and research information competence, all had a positive impact on teaching quality.