Application of Movie-based App in Left-behind Children's EFL Learning

摘要

China has been witnessing an immense number of left-behind children due to annual parental rural-to-urban immi-grant working. As a special educational group,the status quo of left-behind children's English as a foreign language (EFL)learning is not very optimistic.Combiningmobile-assistedlanguage learning (MALL) with traditional foreign language instruction, classroom teaching with off-class mobile learning, Englishmovie-basedApp with functions of bilingual caption setting, unknown words con-sulting, consolidation drills and English proficiency test can be employed to promote left-behind children's EFL learning.