Student and Language Teacher Perceptions of Using a WeChat-Based MALL Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Chinese University
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors:
The study is interesting as it contrasts the perspectives of teachers and students in the same context, and contextualised in a specific moment, which is of great importance in educational transformations.
However, for its publication, I suggest some improvements to be considered by the researchers:
1. The introduction and theoretical framework, in my opinion, should refer to online learning, and to the different existing theoretical and empirical contributions in this regard.
2. It should be specified what kind of qualitative design is being developed and why.
3. The participants are described correctly. However, confusing for the reader, giving a sum of 105 participants in the description of the Table, mentioning 133 in the heading "research and questions" and 150 in the summary and other parts of the text. This should be revised. Also, the presence of only 3 teachers, and their profile, should be justified.
4. In the data analysis, the categories, their type and the process of analysis should be described.
5. The results are presented more as an exposition than as a relationship between categories and quotations. Conclusions are also scarce.
6. The final references should be revised.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Please see the attached document which contains the suggested changes.
Thanks very much for your comments and effort.
Author Response File: 
Author Response.docx
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
This is a relatively a good work - congrats! However, there's a few things that can be done to improve:
1) In line 162 -Totally - should be changed to "In total"
2) There was no mention of a) why only 5 students were interviewed b) how these 5 students were selected - There are previous literature that 5 interviews are acceptable, based on good reasonings - perhaps you can add that in your methodology to substantiate your findings .
Other parts seem fine to me.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Please see the attached document which contains the suggested changes.
Thanks very much for your comments and effort.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 3 Report
The comments for improvement are included inside the file.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Please see the attached document which contains the suggested changes.
Thanks very much for your comments and effort.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors have incorporated most of the proposed changes.
