Zohreh Azad - English Language Department, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch, Iran.
Amirabbas Ghorbani - English Language Department, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch, Iran.

This study aimed at investigating the Iranian EFL Teachers attitude toward the use of OER as well as their perceived barriers of applying OER in Iranian langauge teaching context. To this end a survey was conducted from asample of 115 teachers who were all selected based on convenience sampling method. A questionnaire was used togather the data which has five component and includ attitude, motivation and possible barrier. The results showed thatthe teachers have positive attitude toward OER. Further analysis of the results showed that despite their positiveattitude they are not willing to produce the the material themselves due to some technical reasons such as deficiency of broadband internet connection or a number of personal reasons such as lack of time

Attitude, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Iranian Teachers, Motivation, Open Educational Resource (OER)