FL Flipped Classrooms in a Vocational High-school in China: Students’ Achievements

Abstract

Despite the rapid growth of flipped classroom in various contexts, research has been silent about implementing and evaluating this method of instruction in vocational high-schools. To fill this gap, this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of flipped classroom model on two groups of students in a vocational high-school .The school is located in east of China and it aims to train the future flight attendants.66 EFL learners in two levels of proficiency (grade 11, grade 12 ) were assigned into two flipped and two traditional groups. Participants’ pretest and post test scores were compared to measure the efficacy of this model of instruction .Although results indicate a progress in both groups of learners however, the higher level students outperformed compared to their lower lev el counterparts. Based on this, scholars and interested teachers are expected to consider students’ level of proficiency as an influencing factor in a successful implementing of EFL flipped classroom.