“…To prepare ethnic minority students for investment and success in EFL learning, it is important to help them gain the abilities necessary for effective participation in classrooms, which normally function as a major venue for English communication in many non‐English‐dominant contexts (Pei, 2015). It is also essential for these students to have access to a range of resources, which include but are not limited to peer support, collaborative learning community, and guided engagement with online media, given the saturation of digital technologies in the contemporary landscape of English education (Hafner, 2015; Han et al, 2016; Jiang, 2017). However, given the inequalities in accessing the internet and digital technologies, there is also a significant “digital divide” (Fairlie, 2004) between ethnic minority and majority groups.…”