A Total Different Approach to English Language Teaching !!
Hello Everyone !
I am here again to tell you about a way different teaching method that I have not mentioned before in this blog.
That is, Flipped Classroom Approach. It basically reverses the traditional foreign language teaching methods. Students learn the new content, vocabulary and structures at home mostly via videos or audios. So that, the classroom time can be used for active practice and interaction. For language classes, it is a very impressive method to increase the time for speaking and communicative activites which we need the most in order to achieve proficiency. One advantage is that students come prepared so the lesson is more engaging and interesting. A disadvantage can be when a student does not complete the tasks, he/she might fall behind very easily.
For our project, we have prepared a short flipped lesson. We have aimed to teach 8 vocabulary items chosen from 5th Grade English book from the unit 7. Instead of isolated vocabulary, we wanted to give students an engaging video. That is why, we have created a 4 minute video with my teammates. We first decided on the lenght of the video, the transcript and the language. After specifying these and writing our story, we used Gemini to analyze our story and give us some pictures to create the visuals of our story. After that, everyone voiced their own parts and my teammate edited the whole video using Canva while the rest of us were working on the worksheet and the lesson plan.
For me the biggest challenge was preparing a lesson plan. Since it is a very distinct teaching method, writing a lesson plan about it made me stop and question about the accuracy and efficiency of my lesson plan.
As a foreign language teacher, it was a very different and a challenging task to complete, so I highly doubt about the applicability of this method where there are still traditional methods applied in english as a foreign language classrooms.
Here is the video;
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