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The Expert-based Collective Advising Mechanism (ECAM) was embedded in the open online tutoring project to provide free tutoring for rural students and to help them improve their academic performance, and thus, to solve education inequity. Taking urban and rural students in Tongzhou District of Beijing as the objects, this study gathered data on the tutoring frequency, the durations students received tutoring, the number of teachers who tutored the same student, and the students' academic performance. The tutoring behavior and academic performance of rural and urban students were compared. The results showed that the ECAM could improve students' academic performance. Rural and urban students who received tutoring got the same degree of performance appreciation. Finally, gender, school type, and tutoring duration predicted academic performance positively.

With the continuous development of science and technology, the popularity of electronic games in China is getting higher and higher. As a long popular form of entertainment, electronic games are not only the favorite choice of young people but also influence oral English teaching in Chinese universities to a certain extent. This paper will analyze in depth the main mechanisms by which electronic games enhance students' English speaking ability, and further explore the positive impact and possibility of introducing electronic games into the English speaking teaching system in Chinese universities.