Brief Introduction of the Book
This book generally includes five chapters. Chapter one introduces the purposes of carrying out a study with flipped classroom approach in a listening course under Chinese context. Chapter two provides some theoretical backgrounds for the present study and reviews some previous studies that have been conducted in related areas, such as studies about vocabulary teaching and learning, listening teaching, blended learning and flipped classroom approach. Chapter three introduces the methodology applied in the study including participants, research procedures, research materials applied, data collection methods and data analysis. Chapter four mainly presents the results and discussion related to the study, including quantitative and qualitative data. Chapter five provides the summaries, limitations and pedagogical implementations of the application of the flipped classroom approach of the study.
Zhen Yang, June 4th, 1981, is working at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North University of China. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in English in 2004, at the North China Institute of Technology; She gained her Master's degree in English language and literature in 2011, at the North University of China. She finished her PhD degree in TESOL in 2018, at PaiChai University, South Korea. After she obtained her PhD degree, she is hired as a full-time lecturer at the North University of China, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province.