Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many instructors to rapidly shift to
online/distance teaching. With a narrow preparation window, many instructors are at a loss …

The present study was conducted to investigate and confirm the efficacy of educational
technologies that could facilitate reading and writing development (affordances). It also …

Different from the traditional term language input, affordance, an ecological term, has been
deployed to analyze the perceived opportunities for second language (L2) learning an …

The use of technology has now become an integral part of higher education in Malaysia
because of its positive outcomes in teaching and learning. Despite its use, students are not …

Social annotation tools hold great potential in facilitating students' academic reading by
transforming solitary reading tasks into collaborative experience, but little is known about …

Lexical development in a second language (L2) is increasingly understood to be complex
and multidimensional (Kim, Crossley, & Kyle, 2018; Pellicer-Sánchez, 2016). Knowledge of …

The development of social media has given rise to digital social reading, an activity
characterized by interactivity and social presence. Drawing upon the literature on …

This paper reports on a case study of English as a second language (ESL) vocabulary
learning that examined a group of Grade 4 students' mobile learning experiences of bridging …

Background Critical thinking and argumentative writing are considered complex but
essential skills for learners. However, few studies have examined how instructions can be …

" Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching establishes theoretical, research,
and practice connections between the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design and L2 …