With the development of technology, the integration of electronic technology and new media has been more and more widespread. At the same time, instructional media has undergone tremendous changes. In the field of research on instructional media, more...
With the development of technology, the integration of electronic technology and new media has been more and more widespread. At the same time, instructional media has undergone tremendous changes. In the field of research on instructional media, more and more researches focus on the use of various media in different educational environments.
It should be noticed that although many studies intended to prove the teaching effect of “flipped learning” in recent years, many problems about video-based instruction, such as the high cost of making teaching materials, the difficulty of developing teaching materials still remains unresolved.
With the development of internet technology, online learning is more and more common, most of the researches on flipped learning are mainly aimed at offline teaching and offline teaching and learning. However, only a few researches put emphasis on “online flipped learning”. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to apply “flipped learning” to online learning of Chinese speaking. Particularly, “SPAT” was applied as a media of presenting learning materials, so as to discover the possibility and limitation of flipped online tutoring by using SPAT.
Based on what mentioned above, the research questions in this study are “In online foreign language speaking learning, what are the effect and efficiency, and learners and teachers’ satisfaction of online flipped tutoring by using SPAT."
In order to solve out the research questions mentioned above, this study selected 36 adult learners from Korean companies which require Chinese speaking ability, and conducted 10 one-on-one online business Chinese oral teaching for each learner. In order to ensure the objectivity of the research results, all learners use the same learning materials to conduct one-on-one online learning with the same teacher. All the learners are free to choose whether to use flipped learning or not.
During the course of the study, changes in learner's grades, flipped learning time and the frequency of using flipped learning, as well as data from one-on-one online classes was collected. In addition, the teacher and 4 of the learners who chose to flipped learning were asked to conduct an in-depth interview of the three-time semi-structured before, during, and after the project. Moreover, a survey was conducted for the learners who used SPAT to in the project.
Then comes the results of the study. First of all, there were no significant differences in the performance of the two groups, but the learners had internal changes. Learners in the control group spent more time on self-learning with SPAT. Therefore, it can be confirmed that the learning habits of learners who use SPAT to flipped online learning have changed. Secondly, learners who use SPAT to flipped learning have less time to complete online courses. It means that the learning efficiency has been improved. In addition, the time of preparing teaching materials has been greatly reduced, and the developing of teaching materials has become much easier. From this perspective, it can also be inferred that the use of SPAT in flipped learning has a positive impact on online learning. Thirdly, the satisfaction test results for learners show that learners who use SPAT are more satisfied than the control group.
This study has been attached great significance in the learning effect, learning efficiency and learners’ satisfaction of online flipped tutoring using SPAT as an instructional media. Besides foreign language learning, some other learning materials which require a lot of memory and practice can also use SPAT as a media in flipped learning.