The Effect of Weblogging on Iranian English Teacher Professional Development

This paper reports on the effect of weblogging on Iranian English teacher professional development. Blogs, which are interactive, easy to access and manage technologies, enable ELT teachers to engage in online exchanges and to share information, consequently may improve their knowledge in their profession. The project was conducted on 50 ELT teachers who were divided into two groups of experimental and control. The same treatments were given to both groups, but experimental group received it by means of the designed blog and the control group received it in the pamphlet format. Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT)) was used as pretest and post test. The result revealed that blogging has significant effect on Iranian EFL teachers’ professional development.