It is obviously impractical for teachers to wait for research to show whether a
web tool is effective or not, but teachers can, as Chapelle (2001: 16) suggested,
use ethnographic methods to investigate CALL effectiveness. Practitioners can
ask not only whether a certain technology is effective, but also why it is effective.
What also helps, and which can be seen in evidence in the case studies in this
chapter, is teachers asking for feedback from learners and documenting the results
of this, as well as stages of implementation in blog posts and in other publications
(journals, newsletters, etc.) aimed at language educators.