Abstract
Flipped teaching has gained a growing popularity, starting from higher education and coming all the way down the academic pyramid to the primary schooling. Evidence has shown that positive results are produced in improving learning results. However, it remains to be seen whether these developments can be extended to the training outside of traditional academic settings and realize its full potential in adult English class. Therefore, essential features of the flipped classroom, adult English teachers, adult English learners and learning environment in the private language education institutions are presented to analyze the feasibility.
Highlights
When Wall Street English is entered in the search box of Bing, associated terms will pop out such as Wall Street English + fraud, Wall Street English + brainwashing
Evidence has shown that positive results are produced in improving learning results. It remains to be seen whether these developments can be extended to the training outside of traditional academic settings and realize its full potential in adult English class
In Tang’s empirical research, two prominent obstacles lying in the way for adult English learners are the restraints of learning time and learning location [2]
Summary
When Wall Street English (one of the largest providers of adult English training around the world) is entered in the search box of Bing (one of the most widely used search engine in China), associated terms will pop out such as Wall Street English + fraud, Wall Street English + brainwashing. Liu Xiaoguang, the co-author of Use Your English, posted an article discouraging adults from participating in oral English training of any kind on his Weibo account (Chinese version of Facebook) where he has around 280,000 followers. 80% of followers responding to the article echoed with his opinion, recounting their unpleasant experience in the private language training centers [1]. The disappointing learning is reflected in the academic literature and reasons behind it are analyzed. Remedial measures easy to operate for teachers and learners are urgently needed to enhance the experience and improve the learning of adult English trainees, an understudied and neglected population of English learners in the research literature. The flipped classroom originating from traditional academic settings could provide a solution to this conundrum
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