Let’s Form an Effective Team!

image by  M channel on Free Stock photos by Vecteezy Collaborative learning has many benefits. Research suggests that effective and functional team learning can enhance students’development both academically and mentally, for example, resulting in better school performance, more effective relationships with people and better communication skills. As teamwork has to be organized to leverage its […]

What Interactional Competencies Contribute to the Effectiveness of Synchronous Online English Language Teaching?

Edited by Jiaqi CAI, Kefan ZHENG, Beibei LEI, Yihang JIAO Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, synchronous online lessons (SOLs), referred to as lessons delivered synchronously online through video-conferencing tools (Peachey, 2017), are becoming increasingly prevalent. Although SOLs contain multiple benefits for language learning in the digital age, they also bring us challenges (Moorhouse et al., […]