Application of Flipped Classroom in Medical Oral English Teaching

Abstract

It is common for medical oral English classroom to be teacher-centered instruction. But the weakest point of this method is that the students lose their autonomy in this learning environment and feel difficult to stimulate their interest in oral English learning. A new approach to oral English classroom is therefore required. Recently, a growing number of scholars home have focus their attention on the flipped classroom mode, but they attach great importance to English for general purpose. In view of this, an empirical study of flipped classroom in English for specific purpose is conducted. That is, the experiment of flipped classroom in medical oral English is carried out for 16 weeks. The study indicates that the flipped classroom has a great influence on medical oral English teaching. The study also shows, to a large extent, breaks through confinement by the teacher-centered and classroom-centered traditional teaching mode, and therefore helps improve the medical students' oral English and communicative competence.