50 | J. Hum. Ins. 2021; 5(3): 50-58 Journal of Humanities Insights 5(3): 50-58, 2021 Research Paper The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status, Technology Acceptance, and Technology Use among Iranian EFL Teachers Helia Nodeh a* , Amin Shahini b a Master of Teaching Language, Science and Research Branch, Azad University, Tehran, Iran. b Department of language sciences, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran. Received: 15 June 2021 Accepted: 05 July 2021 Published: 02 September 2021 Abstract Technology has been at the center of researchers’ attention over the last decade in ELT due to growing use of mobiles and other electronic devices among EFL learners. On other hand, socioeconomic status is a term on which a good number of studies have been done lately in education and especially in ELT. Thus, the present study sought to find out whether there is any relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ socioeconomic status and their technology acceptance and also technology use. In this study, 60 Iranian EFL teachers were selected through convenience sampling as participants. They were in an age range of 25 to 45 and from both genders. Socioeconomic status questionnaire (Aggarwal et al. 2005), technology acceptance scale (Park, 2009) and technology use scale are the three instruments used to collect data in this study. After data collection, first, the normality test, K-S test along with Shapiro Wilk test was run to see if the data would be normal. Since they were normal, the parametric statistical procedure of Pearson correlation test was run to find out whether there would be any relationship between the variables. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ SES and technology use. In addition, the results also showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between SES and teacher acceptance too. As the main pedagogical implication of the present study, teacher educators need to teach teachers how to use technology in their classes. Keywords: - How to cite the article: H. Nodeh, A. Shahini, The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status, Technology Acceptance, and Technology Use among Iranian EFL Teachers, J. Hum. Ins. 2021; 5(3): 50-58. ©2021 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC By license 1. Introduction Relative income determines a person or family’s savings and consumption depending on the family’s income in relation to others. Income is usually used as a measure of social economic status as it is relatively easy to count for most persons. Income inequality is most frequently considered around the world by the Gini Coefficient, where 0 matches perfect equality and 1 shows perfect inequality. Low income emphasizes on facing abrupt requirements and do not collect wealth that might be approved upcoming generations, therefore * Corresponding Author: helia.nodeh@gmail.com increasing inequality. Families with upper and unessential income can gather wealth and concentrate on encountering immediate requirements while being capable of using and appreciating luxuries and weather crises (GOK, 1983). Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociological combined measure of an individual’s work experience and of a person's or family’s economic and social position connected to others, based on income, education, and occupation. After analyzing a family’s social economic status, the domestic income, earners’ education and