Innovation in Language Learning

The paper presents the application of the flipped classroom strategy and how students' motivation is stimulated through work on the content, which involves authentic materials on engaging topics that interest all learners (personal development, healthy eating, conflict resolution, etc). The purpose of the paper is to describe how this type of learning process is modeled. The process starts with delivering instructional content about knowledge acquisition and knowledge construction through homework (studying texts and original documents, watching videos, conducting surveys, experiments and analyzes, doing projects, or other activities that engage learners in content). All the practices aim to get the students to form a concept about the topic being studied. Classwork continues as a structured discussion, debate or presentation, or by finding solutions to issues through collaboration, peer review, group work, brainstorming, etc. The aim here is engaging the learners in collaborative and argumentative practices. The goal of the applied methodology is developing learners’ skills (cognitive, linguistic, organizational, personal). The positive aspects and results of this type of blended learning, the difficulties encountered in its implementation, as well as the ways of overcoming them, are highlighted.

Keywords: Flipped classroom, Content-based instruction, learning motivation, active learning, collaboration.

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