Text story modules were rated the most helpful content type in WeChat literature articles, ahead of pictures and audio-video¶

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q2 i? 73.47% of students chose text story as the most helpful module, compared with 32.65% for picture and 22.45% for audio and video. → Dai et al. 2018

Evidence¶

Dai et al. 2018¶

Guiyu Dai, Yang Liu & Shanmeng Cui. (2018). A Study on the Mobile Learning of English and American Literature Based on Wechat Public Account. English Language Teaching, 11(6). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n6p47

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Question 21 (single choice) asked which module was most helpful. Text story ranked first (73.47%), picture second (32.65%), audio and video last (22.45%). The authors suggest pictures are more direct and audio-video is impractical in quiet places.

"Nearly three out of four students (73.47%) think the module of text story in the Wechat articles is the most helpful for their literature information learning."

Discussion¶

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