Study on Application of Flipped Classroom Theory in College English Teaching

Under the tide of our domestic education informationization reform, the flipped classroom originating from American education circle takes the constructivism theory as the guidance, and depends on the modern information technology. As an innovative teaching mode, it has aroused great concern and favor in our domestic education circle with its unique advantages. This paper takes the education information reform as the guidance, focuses on the origin and definition analysis of the flipped classrooms, starts from the current status of the college English teaching, elaborates the feasibility analysis and advantages of the classrooms to guide the college English teaching, puts forward related countermeasures and suggestions, provides classroom practice cases, so as to provide reference for our domestic colleges to implement the flipped classroom practice of the college English. At present, originating from America, the flipped classroom as a new teaching idea and method that overturns the traditional teaching method has become a hot reform topic among the global education circle. Although the flipped classroom has already been promoted and implemented widely in America, and it has been highly praised and approved by American students and teachers, our domestic research and application about the flipped classroom is still in the beginning stage. Nowadays, the rapid development of our domestic information technology, promotion and application of the network technology and the effective implementation of the planning of the Ministry of Education provides wide platforms and good opportunities for the propaganda and application of the flipped classroom. In other words, the innovative teaching mode constructed by the flipped classroom is the product of the education informationization. It also can be regarded as the "damaging innovation" for the traditional teaching mode. As an international innovative teaching mode, the flipped classroom has unique advantage that the traditional teaching cannot achieve. To introduce the flipped classroom and apply it in our domestic college English teaching practice can effectively break through the dilemma of the current college English teaching development, which provides convenience for the students to study English. On essence, it is necessary to realize the deep reform of the college English teaching, and improve our domestic college English proficiency and students' comprehensive English application ability from listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating.