"The planning and promotion of a foreign or second language education in the primary school seems a worldwide trend. English and Chinese, as global communication media, are particularly emphasised recently. In Taiwan, learning English is regarded as a Foreign Language study (EFL) as it is far different from learning English as a Second Language (ESL) or as a first language (LI) ... This research explores the potential for ICT technology to be integrated into the practice of second language teaching pedagogy, to enhance current teaching theory in support of second language teaching and acquisition. The trans-national and cross linguistic language learners in Taiwan and Australia used of Yahoo messenger program [sic], as well as the transference of the resource of instruction between young learners and machine. This research project provided a twelve-week ICT intervention for Taiwanese English-based learners and Australian Mandarin-based learners to practice their target lanaguages, and students were given the same topic weekly to prepart their conversation weekly. The project recruited similar age Australian and Taiwanese students (at the range of ten to eleven), and they have learnt their target language for three years in their own countries"--Abstract.