“…Moreover, incorporating the learning community concept into the system enabled the learners to view pictures drawn bypeers,whichfacilitatedlong-termlearningretention.Althoughthelearnerswerenotas skilledatdrawingasprofessionalartists,thepicturestheyproducedmatchedmoreclosely with their cognitions. Because elaborate pictures enrich students' recall when learning English vocabulary (Wood, Pressley, Turnure, & Walton, 1987), advanced drawing tools couldbeincludedinfutureresearch;moreover,studentscouldcreateandcollectpersonal dictionariesbydrawingorsearchingforpeers'picturesonline.Accordingly,teacherscould have an interactive channel for obtaining and directing students' vocabulary learning by viewingthepicturesontheirdictionaries.Inaddition,thelearnerswereconfidentthatthe picturestheydrewclearlyexpressedthemeaningofthevocabularies.Thelearnerscould create their own learning content by drawing pictures in such a manner that the pictures were highly relevant to the meaning of the target word, thus transforming their learning patternfrompassivetoactive.…”