Title : The Effectiveness of the Flipped Classroom
Mode on the English Pronunciation Course
Writer and Institution
: Hongwei Zhang, Xiaomei Du,
Xinfa Yuan, Liming Zhang
Foreign Language Department,
Baoding University, Baoding, China
Publisher : Scientific research publishing
Creative Education, 2016, 7, 1340-1346
Published Online June 2016 in SciRes.
http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2016.79139
Pronunciation is
one of subjects must be mastered by the pupils for the English majors in the
first year of college study. In contrary, dealing with the pronunciation the
problem still remains due to the many cases. One of the center problems is
ineffectiveness of teaching. Hence, flipped classroom has brought fresh air to
this unsolved problem. A teacher’s interaction with students in a flipped
classroom can be more personalized and less didactic, and students are actively
involved in knowledge acquisition and construction as they participate in and
evaluate their learning (Alvarez, 2011).
The
aims of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a comparatively new
teaching mode—the flipped classroom—in the English pronunciation course. Mixed methods were used in this study in
order to seek sufficient evidences for the effectiveness of the flipped classroom
teaching mode. The students’ final exam scores were compared with those of the
students taught with the traditional teaching mode. In addition, individual
face-to-face interviews were carried out to dig up the students’ attitudes
towards the teaching modes. Ultimately, the result has been drawn that flipped
classroom mode was more effective than the traditional mode in pronunciation
teaching.
As s reflection, the teachers in Indonesia have to adjust
the way of their teaching with the contemporary education system and need to take the huge profits of technology. Therefore, the
traditional teaching method must be deserted or greatly changed to the fashionable teaching method, that is flipped classroom. But
then, it should be noted that they need a workshop or a seminar on flipped
classroom to build their knowledge before fruitfully in applying this flipped
classroom to the learners. In short, the successful flipped classroom is
greatly depend on the teachers’ motivation
and effort as well as a help from
government to facilitate teacher’s
quality in order to enhance educational system in Indonesia.
