Going digital: Flipping the foreign language classroom [articol]

Abstract

The Flipped Classroom approach was suggested by the chemistry teachers, Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams (Bergmann & Sams, 2012) and, as a component of blended learning, it has spread throughout educational disciplines. The Flipped Classroom is an approach to teaching and learning activities where students watch a video lesson outside the class and do practical activities in the class – basically, the approach has made homework and classroom activities reversed, with the idea to make learning more individual and to transform a classroom into a dynamic and interactive learning environment, with high level of learners’ engagement. The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of the flipped classroom approach and to explore its benefits and challenges for both, foreign language learners and educators.