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Blackboard Adoption In Efl Teaching: Instructors’ Acceptance And Use, Basmah Ali Abu-Ghararah Nov 2021

Blackboard Adoption In Efl Teaching: Instructors’ Acceptance And Use, Basmah Ali Abu-Ghararah

International Journal for Research in Education

This study aims to investigate the link between the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model (UTAUT) and the acceptance and use of Blackboard (BB) among English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors. The UTAUT model was employed to determine the strength of predictors for EFL instructors’ willingness to use BB for educational purposes. A questionnaire was administered to 80 EFL instructors at Taibah University. The results indicated that performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), and facilitating conditions (FC) positively and directly correlated with behavioral intention (BI) to adopt and use BB in language classes. However, this study …