FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OPPOSITE ICT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THEIR ACTUAL PROFILE IN ALBANIAN EDUCATIONAL REALITY

The modern teaching of foreign languages has brought the breach with traditional methods and the inclusion of new digital technologies in the learning process. The teachers and the students are facing the challenges of teaching through the use of ICT. Their actual profile in Albanian educational reality has changed, because the teacher can affect significantly the learning of foreign languages, accelerating the acquisition of the learning process and create a rich learning environment. The more work is done in the classroom with ICT, the more the student is in the center of the activity as the ICT provides new opportunities by increasing the autonomy of learning and teaching while discovering. The article evaluates the advantages and the challenges faced by teachers and students opposite foreign language teaching with ICT, were held questionnaires that were intended to provide a general overview of the use of new technologies in the educational environment of Albania, to examine the attitudes, the expectations and the obstacles of Albanian teachers of foreign languages, for the integration of Internet tools, and for teaching foreign languages. Also to provide an overview on the current profile of the teachers and students, there have been developed two questionnaires addressed both to students and teachers. The analysis of data showed increasing interest in the use of ICT by teachers and students in school, as well as outside and to highlight the challenges faced by the two actors of the process, the teachers and students.