TPACK, Journal Summary 13

A Survey of Native Language Teachers-Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) In Taiwan

Kun-Hung Cheng

The study was aimed to investigate native language teachers’ perceived TPACK. To gather the data, the author adapted the TPACK survey which was developed by previous studies targeting pre-service teachers (Kohi et al, 2013; Sohin, 2011) and in-service teachers (Lin et al, 2013). The survey included 172 in-service Hakka Language (one of main native languages in Taiwan) teachers from different region with different gender, age, and teaching experience in Taiwan. The survey containing seven TPACK constructs: TK, PK, CK, TCK, TPK, PCK and TPACK where every item was rated on seven point Likert scale. Based on the data, can be seen that the older teachers have higher PCK self-efficacy but lower TK self-efficacy (e.g Hsu et al, 2017; Kazu & Erten, 2014). The correlation between teachers’ age and their perceived was not significant. Older ale teachers tended to be more confident in CK, while older female teachers tended to have less confident in TK. Even the age did not have significant in TPACK perceived, but teaching experience did.