Flipped Classroom in Teaching Vocabulary to EFL Young Learners

Abstract

Most of Indonesian young learners, particularly elementary school students, are lack of vocabulary so that it is hard for them to improve their English skills such as speaking and reading. Mastering vocabulary then plays a very significant role as the basic need to enhance their competence. A novel strategy is needed to improve EFL (English as a Foreign Language) young learners' vocabulary mastery. Therefore, the writer proposes flipped classroom as an alternative strategy to teach vocabulary for young learners. Flipped classroom in this paper is an instructional approach and a type blended learning type reversing the old traditional educational system by delivering instructional contents or materials, frequently conducted by online and done outside of the classroom. This paper is focused more on viewing the general concepts or insights and the techniques of utilizing flipped classroom that a teacher can apply in teaching vocabulary to elementary school students in which this approach, the writer believes, can also improve both learner's motivation and engagement. This paper is written based on some theories and the writer's analysis as well as reflection of the writer's teaching experience in classrooms. The data were collected by doing library research so that he got the data as the reference from books as well as journals regarding the object of the study.

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