Purpose: The integration of mobile technology in ESL/EFL contexts has garnered significant attention from contemporary researchers, teachers, and learners due to the advancements in technology, dynamic features, and multimodal applications. With this growing interest, there is a need to synthesize the existing literature and identify current…

Digital games have gained significant attention in the field of language education. Among various educational applications, research on digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) has seen a marked increase in interest and exploration. This study presents a scientometric review based on bibliometric data from the Scopus and Web of Science Core…

The perspective of emergent literacy was applied to investigate the name-writing skills of 4-year-old, low-income Mandarin Chinese-speaking children in Taiwan. One hundred and eleven children in Taiwan were recruited from 12 public preschools. Children were individually assessed with a name-writing task, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary…

Mobile phones are becoming more acceptable toolkits to learn languages. One aspect of English language which has been subject to investigation in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is vocabulary. This study reviewed some of the studies conducted in various contexts on the effect of MALL on vocabulary learning. We investigated some of the…

The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the effect of Story Telling and retelling and higher order thinking for "E"nglish "L"anguage and "L"iteracy "A"cquisition (STELLA) on the English oral proficiency of elementary students in Mainland China and Taiwan, where English is taught as a foreign…

A GLOSSARY OF 4,500 CHINESE ENTRIES WAS DEVELOPED. THE GLOSSARY CONTAINS THE VOCABULARY FROM TEXTS PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THOSE PREPARED BY THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE (FSI) STAFF OF TAICHUNG, TAIWAN. THE MATERIALS INCLUDED ARE SELECTIONS FROM CHINESE COMMUNIST LITERATURE, NEWSPAPER SELECTIONS FROM THE MAINLAND PRESS, A SPEECH ON…