FLIPPED CLASSROOM: A CONTEMPORARY VYGOTSKIAN APPROACH IN THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGY

In recent years, countries worldwide have been taking broad steps to lead educational reforms in their educational systems to prepare their learners for employment by teaching them the required skills that would enable them to apply these skills in real-world scenarios. Consequently, to achieve this ultimate goal, educators shifted their attention towards adopting the flipped classroom approach as an active learning approach, which has earned much attention from educators and practitioners around the world as it has been claimed that the flipped classroom can consolidate the students’ deep learning and motivate and engage students with their learning when compared with other didactic learning approaches which are considered tedious and daunting for the learners. Due to that, this paper presents the theoretical and practical methods embedded in implementing the flipped classroom in English classes by providing an example of using the flipped classroom strategy to teach ESL creative writing innovatively.