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3.1 Material 
The participants in this study were all English language teachers at a lower secondary school 
in southern Sweden, who teaches English as a foreign language. The assortment of 
participants was due to the aim of the study – the sample of teachers was chosen to reflect 
English language teachers and their ways of using IWBs in ELT. Bryman (ibid) calls this 
selection a target-based method, which means that the researcher selects participants who are 
of relevance to the aim of the study (Bryman, ibid). However, a conscious decision was made 
to unsystematically select the individual English teachers for the study. Since, email was sent 
to all the English teachers at the chosen school and the teachers who answered that they 
would like to participated was selected. This disorganized selection resulted in a similarity 
among the participants. The contributors were all female teachers and in their late 30s.
 
Teacher 
Age 
Numbers of years in 
profession 
Second subject 
Periods of time the 
participants have been 
using the IWB in ELT 
1 
39 
15 
Swedish
4 years 
2 
39 
14 
Physical education 8 years 
3 
36 
10 
Swedish, French 
6-7 years 
4 
39 
13,5 
Swedish, German 
6 months 
3.2 Problems and limitations 
A problem that occurred before the interviews was the difficulty to find English teachers with 
the time to participate in the interviews. First of all, in the initial writing state of this project 
all schools were on Christmas break, which made it hard to get in contact with relevant 
participants for the study. Moreover, after the break, several of the teachers at the school that 
was contacted, were busy with parental consultation meetings, which made it difficult for 

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them to find space in their schedule for interviews. Additionally, when the English teachers 
who could and wanted to participate in the interviews had answered, another problem 
appeared. The teachers were unable to commit themselves to the intended 45-60 minutes long 
interviews; in practice, they were all limited to 20-30 minutes. This created a source for 
concern, since Bryman (ibid) argues that interviews that are too short are unusable for 
research, affecting the credibility of the result (Bryman, ibid). Another factor that is assumed 
to influence the credibility of the study is the fact that all participants in this study happened 
to be female and in their late 30s, which means that the result only concludes answers and 
evidence from one target group. Finally, an assumption is that the majority of language 
teachers at lower secondary schools are female. However, on the basis of external validity, 
due to the vague sample of participants it is hard to be representative in terms of matching the 
sample to the population and make any generalizations. 

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4. Results
In this section the results from the study will be introduced. Under each interview question 
some quotations will be presented and there will be a short summary of the interview 
responses provided in Swedish and also translated into English. The results are divided up 
into four subcategories: The Participants’ Perception of their Technological Abilities and 
their Integration of ICT in ELT, The Participants’ Perception of their Abilities of using the 
IWB and their Integration of it in ELT, The Beneficial Aspects of using the IWB in ELT
and 
lastly,
Factors that affect the Participants’ integration of IWB in ELT