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English
Level: G3
Supervisor: Christopher Allen 
2ENÄ2E 
Examiner: Jan Berggren 
15 Credits
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2015-04-02) 
Interactive Whiteboards
English teachers’
integration of the IWB in 
English Language Teaching 
Josefin Sjönvall 

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Abstract
The interactive whiteboard is a fairly recent technical device, which has become an 
increasingly important teaching aid. The interactive whiteboard is supposed to have a positive 
impact on English Language Teaching, due to its interactivity and the unlimited opportunities 
it creates for language teaching. However, findings still show that the interactive whiteboard 
is used more as a traditional whiteboard to write and show information on rather than as an 
interactive teaching and learning device. This study seeks to investigate English language 
teachers’ integration of the IWB in ELT. A qualitative approach was used to collect data for 
this study. Four English Language Teachers at a lower secondary school in southern Sweden 
were interviewed. The result from this study shows similarities to previous research. The 
decisive factors for the participants’ incorporation of the IWB in ELT, such as attitude, 
knowledge and time, were comparable to previous studies. The result also implies that the 
participants saw the interactive whiteboard as a useful tool in English Language Teaching and 
as a regular part of their teaching. Nevertheless, there was a desire among the teachers to 
learn more about the interactive whiteboard and its possibilities and also to develop their 
skills in order to improve their teaching and the pupils’ language proficiency. Although the 
teachers in the study used the interactive whiteboard frequently and interactively, the result 
shows that the most frequent usage was to display information non-interactively.
Keywords: Interactive whiteboard, Information and communication technology, English 
Language Teaching, Qualitative method. 

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