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2.3 Summary
As a result of the prior analytical reading; there are various studies that
emphasize and illustrate the importance of distance learning and its effectiveness on
the outcome of the learners’ motivation, engagement and communication skills.
However, there are limited studies that discuss the positive impact of distance
learning can have on students’ writing skill and how it can be used as a tool to
enhance their writing through the use of different modern technologies in a virtual
classroom.
The clear objective of this literature review is to analyze and synthesize
scholarly articles that examine and argue the effectiveness of distance learning on the
engagement, motivation, as well as language and communication skills of Chinese
learners that face some challenges in regard to learning English as a foreign language
and the conditions that must be fulfilled for an effective virtual lesson.
In light of this, the findings of this literature review suggest that distance
learning could be used as a very powerful tool to enhance the learning experience for
these learners by providing them with a ‘scaffolded motivational adaptation of their
material’ for the purpose of having them become more engaged in class since they
are easily exposed to the content of the material through CLT and uncomplicated
task-based instruction activities inside of classroom which could improve their
knowledge, collaborative skills as well as their language and communication skills by
interacting more often with the teacher. Further, the second chapter of the literature
review has concluded with a discussion on the difficulties that learners face while
writing in terms of ‘mechanical and grammatical errors’, which later on justifies that
learners of all levels can overcome these writing barriers through entertaining