Flipped classroom and its use in teaching english as a foreign language

Abstract

The study examines the effectiveness of the flipped classroom teaching strategy in the context of English language classroom. The research is focused on the development of the communicative ability of the students in the foreign language, views of the participants on their experience of flipped classroom, and identification of measures to overcome the issue of low homework completion. The presented data are based on an experiment conducted by the author at the University of Granada (Spain), with a group of undergraduate students attending a compulsory foreign language course. The data were collected using a standardized exam; an observation diary to evaluate the development of the students' communicative ability in the foreign language; a questionnaire; and web-based statistical tools. Results show that the use of flipped classroom strategy had a positive effect on students' foreign language abilities.