The flipped classroom model on A2 EFL students’ vocabulary achievement in an Ecuadorian university environment

Resumo

Flipped classroom model has been applied in the last decades in different teaching fields with positive results providing as teachers as learners a good learning atmosphere for teaching development and learning acquisition. The efficacy of the flipped classroom model moves students from passive to active class participation, improving their vocabulary proficiency (Alnuayt, 2018). Learners feel motivated to learn on their own, promoting autonomous learning and the empowerment of their understandings (Lin & Hwang, 2018; Yang, Liu & Todd, 2019). Research recommends that the twenty-first century students enjoy learning through effective interaction that is why the flipped classroom model could be a powerful teaching tool in this century (Rivera, 2016) which entailed to the researcher to carry out this investigation with students from a public university in the Guayaquil city to enhance the vocabulary proficiency on A2 EFL learners using the flipped classroom model.