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Hien Bui

Project title:

  • EFL undergraduate students' perspectives and experiences of the flipped classroom at a Vietnamese university

Supervisors:

  • Dr Bill Allen
  • Associate Professor Nicola Johnson

Summary of thesis:

This qualitative case-study investigates English as Foreign Language (EFL) students’ perspectives and experiences of flipped learning in one Vietnamese university. Data were collected from (i) interviews with 20 students and five teachers; and (ii) observations of students’ learning activities, both online and face-to-face classes. Thematic data analysis revealed five important findings:

  1. Students preferred surface learning
  2. Higher-achieving students engaged in deeper learning, but lower-achieving students never rose above surface learning
  3. Students had little understandings of flipped classroom learning
  4. Students lacked necessary self-regulation and metacognitive strategies. Fifth, a range of factors, individual and contextual, affected students’ surface learning
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