Abstract: “Xi’an Wuhuan High School in China has invested substantially to introduce students to blog-based vocabulary learning and integrate technology into existing curriculum. The purpose of the present study is to investigate teacher support - teacher-student interaction and teacher’s direction for Chinese high school EFL students’ vocabulary learning through blogs. For this paper, the methodology section is discussed. There are two research techniques applied in this study. Firstly, teacher-student interaction and teachers’ direction will be investigated through collecting and analyzing the content of teachers’ blogs. Secondly, teacher support for students’ vocabulary learning will be investigated through in-depth semi-structured interviews.”

Keywords: teacher support, students’ vocabulary learning, blogs.