Abstract
Despite the buzz around the flipped or inverted classroom as a new trend in educational practice and research, there is a limited number of studies on its effectiveness in English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching. This paper aims at contributing to the field of flipped classroom research by examining and analyzing the outcomes of the experiment conducted at the Tomsk Polytechnic University within the course of English for Engineering. Outlining several challenges, the authors conclude on the significant benefits of the flipped classroom model in ESL teaching including an increase in students’ overall performance on the course, enhancement of students’ motivation and improvement of their autonomous learning skills.
Highlights
It is hard to disregard the increasing interest to the idea of the flipped classroom first being widely embraced and successfully adopted by the American and European pedagogical communities and being more often considered in the studies of the Asian universities
The model of the flipped classroom refers to a larger pedagogical movement that comprises the vast notion of blended learning, inquiry-based learning, and other methods and tools that are commonly expected to be flexible, accessible, interactive, and, what is more important, more engaging for students
There have been a number of studies emerging around the flipped classroom but most of them focus on the effectiveness of this approach for lecture-based courses
Summary
The flipped classroom is an approach to organizing the learning process and the learning content. If we consider Bloom’s revised taxonomy (Figure 1) [2], students are first organized to deal online with the lower levels of cognitive work (recall relevant background knowledge, gain new knowledge and check its comprehension via tests). In brick-and-mortar environment they are supposed to focus on the higher forms of cognitive work including application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and creation with the support of their peers and under the guidance of the subject instructor
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