The following paper will critically review a journal article
entitled Understanding class blogs as a tool for language
development, authored by Doris de Almeida Soares and published
in ‘Language Teaching Research’ (2008; 12; 517-534). The study
described in the article was carried out over a three month
period at a private language school in Brazil using practitioner
research into learning activities and includes the results of an
online survey of teachers who used blogs in different contexts
around the world. The paper evaluates both the positive and
negative aspects of the article and is divided into six main
sections. The first, which analyses the literature review
presented by the author, is followed by the rationale behind the
study. Subsequently, there is an analysis of the methods used to
carry out the research, including the participants and sampling
techniques, the instruments used to collect data, and the way in
which the data was analysed. The fourth section considers how
the findings are presented