43. Research: using IRS to promote interaction
during the class in the flipped learning context
? IETI, Innovations in Education and Teaching International (SSCI)
? Flipped learning practices face increasing pressure on the effectiveness of the
implementation, as it has significantly transformed pedagogical practices.
Although this pedagogical approach has become increasingly popular over the
last 10 years, certain challenges to implementation have inevitably arisen. In this
study, a learning activity based on the Interactive Response System (IRS) using a
pair-and-share (PS-IRS) strategy is proposed for helping students achieve optimal
use of target language, thus bridging the pre-class and in-class contexts in flipped
learning. A sequence of PS-IRS activities were created for the study, and the
activities were delivered in a collaborative manner in each of the lessons in order
to assist students in English language learning. An experiment was conducted to
assess the effectiveness of this approach in the context of an English as a foreign
language (EFL) course at a university. A total of 85 university students participated
in the experiment, 45 assigned to the experimental group and learned with the PS-
IRS approach, and 40 in the control group and learned with a teacher-led (TL-IRS)
learning method. Results indicate that the PS-IRS approach provides effective
interactive learning opportunities that promote students’ willingness to
communicate (WTC) and reduce their learning anxiety. This study builds on
existing discussion of integrated-IRS teaching strategies in the literature and
extends it into the context of the flipped language classrooms.
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