“…Notwithstanding the significant growth in the number of online EFL learners, scarce attention has been paid to VSCMC with Chinese young learners (Coyle & Reverte Prieto, 2017, Yu, 2018. Specifically, numerous examples of the implementation of VSCMC in EFL teaching could be found in Chinese university settings, such as online English discussions on Zoom (Zhang & Chen, 2021), language exchange with English native speakers on Zoom (Feng &Shirvani, 2021;Sunaoka, 2018), task-based learning on university-developed platform . Besides, a variety of tools can be used for VSCMC teaching in China, such as interactive classroom (e.g., ClassIn, CCtalk), social media tools (e.g., QQ, WeChat, Skype), and remote meeting tools (e.g., Zoom) (Quadir & Zhou, 2021).…”