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Technology has brought many advantages in people's lives and it has supported many fields, including the educational field. Teachers and students have been benefited with the inclusion of technology inside the classrooms. There have been several studies related to the benefits that technology has brought for the schools. However, there is still a need for more phenomenological research in our context about English teachers’ lived experiences about the use of technology in their classrooms. Particularly, the limitations that they have faced during their teaching practices. The purpose of this study was to explore and understand English teachers’ lived experiences about the use of technology in the EFL classroom. Seidman (2006) three series of interviews model was used to collect the data. The data analysis was carried out through Colaizzi’s (1978) method of seven steps for descriptive phenomenology. The analysis process provided four themes: (a) The Transcendence of Being a User, (b) Awareness of a Value, (c) The Experience of Being Technology-illiterate, and (d) The Smoothness of Communication and Sense of Improvement. The findings of this study provide accounts of the participant’s experiences about the significance of being a user, sense of improvement and value and the limitations inside the EFL classroom, and also the experiences gave meaning to the inclusion of technology in the teaching-learning process.

Teachers are requested to develop students' reading comprehension ability, so they can understand, debate and propose ideas based on texts they read in class. However, in some of our school contexts and during our observations we could recognize that students tend to perceive texts as long and boring, Moreover, activities students engage in are mostly to search for literal information and vocabulary answers in texts. This research focused on addressing students’ needs concerning reading by using genre-based pedagogy and mangas as texts in an EFL context. This study also sought to describe the possible affordances that might be observed on 8thh graders´ after being taught with GBP and mangas, as well as exploring how it provoked some changes in students´ negative feelings towards reading in the EFL class. Results from the study showed that knowledge of genre and interaction with its components helped students understand the story in the Manga, read a new manga by their own and answer genre questions about it. The study also showed how some of the students felt comfortable when reading after being taught with GBP.