Raising Native Cultural Awareness through WeChat: a case study with Chinese EFL students By Junjie Gavin Wu & Lindsay Miller

By Heidi, Xiang, Amy, Liz Imagine your English-speaking friends asking questions about Chinese food, but you can’t express yourself well in English. How can your cultural knowledge and English competency be improved? Photo by Chaliceks on Pixabay Introduction Owing to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, university language teachers should incorporate native cultural topics into the English […]

An Introduction to Mobile Learning – A Distorted Term with Potential Affordances for Learning

Edited by Shireen, Wila, and Brian This article is based on Mobile learning: Small devices, big issues by Sharples et al. (2009) INTRODUCTION We can observe from our daily life and find that digital devices serve multiple functions. For example, students use smartphones to play multi-player. Working adults rely on computers with Internet access […]

March 5, 2022
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A Closer Look at Digital Multimodal Composing——New Literacies and New Possibilities for EFL Learning

Edited by Alex, Connie, Ellen, Vickie Do you ever watch videos on YouTube, Tik Tok, Bilibili or other media platforms? Have you ever gained any language knowledge benefiting from watching these videos? Have you ever thought of producing a video yourself as part of your language learning process? Actually, this kind of approach, which integrates […]

March 5, 2022
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Multimodal Design for Our Writing (Building on On becoming facilitators of multimodal composing and digital design by Diane D. Belcher)

Edited by Jaclyn, Joyce, Ada and Bay If you are asked to write an essay in your L2, what comes to your mind first? Is it a piece of writing with lengthy sentences, elusive grammar, or large paragraphs? Or is it strictly structured like the five-paragraph essay sample below which is frequently used in our TOFEL and IELTS tests? Sometimes, it seems […]