The manuscript was received on July 27, 2022; revised August 29, 2022; accepted September 26, 2022.
Abstract—With the advent of e-learning, in which
instruction is done remotely and on digital platforms, education
has experienced a profound upheaval as the sole means of
ensuring the continuation of academic activities due to the
disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. This crisis
appears to have created a perfect environment for creating
freely available, publicly licenced course materials known as
open educational resources, or OER. Boon Yih Mah initiated
the self-assessed online listening tests (SAOLT) as one of the
OER to provide English as a second language (ESL) learners
with a platform with relevant and supporting content to
practise their listening skills in a test format. Therefore, the
main objective of this study is to measure the perceptions of
senior English teachers from different education sectors about
the usefulness, ease of use, attitude toward use, and behavioural
intention to use SAOLT in their teaching of listening skills. A
survey was conducted using a purposive sampling method
comprising ten English educators from different types of
institutions with 16–40 years of teaching experience. The items
in the questionnaire were adapted based on the Unified Theory
of Acceptance and Use of Technology or UTAUT to suit the
study’s objectives using five Likert scales for measuring the
perceptions. Based on the findings after performing the
descriptive data analysis, this survey has shown positive
responses among the senior English teachers from different
education sectors about their perceptions of the usefulness, ease
of use, attitude toward use, and behavioural intention to use
SAOLT in their teaching, particularly for listening skills.
Index Terms—Self-assessed online listening tests (SAOLT),
open educational resources (OER), unified theory of acceptance
and use of technology (UTAUT), senior English teachers
Boon Yih Mah is with the Academy of Language Studies, Universiti
Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Pulau Pinang, Penang, Malaysia.
Feifei Han is with the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher
Education, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia.
*Correspondence: mahboonyih@gmail.com (B.Y.M.)
Cite: Boon Yih Mah* and Feifei Han, "Self-assessed Online Listening Tests as an OER: The Senior English Educators’ Perspectives Based on UTAUT Model," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 1135-1141, 2023.
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