Amid Covid-19 pandemic, emergency remote teaching has been done through online learning. Recent research has found some challenges and opportunities, including the debate analyzing the effectiveness of online teaching and learning processes. However, little is known about the types of learning strategies that suit students' engagement with online learning. The exploration between them represents an emergent paradigm that spread English learning in online setting, where learning is situated in authentic contexts to face immersive experiences in order to accomplish meaningful learning. With the aim at disseminating such a revolutionary arena, this preliminary analysis discloses reviews on their natures and applications in relation to English achievement. The conclusions reveal the obtained results may help pre-service EFL teachers and educators to bear in mind the benefits of investigating their learners' characteristics prior to developing teaching materials or media and opting teaching techniques when dealing with enhancing English achievement during this emergency remote teaching.