Brief Introduction of the Book
This book generally includes five chapters. Chapter one introduces the purposes of carrying out a study with flipped classroom approach in a listening course under Chinese context. Chapter two provides some theoretical backgrounds for the present study and reviews some previous studies that have been conducted in related areas, such as studies about vocabulary teaching and learning, listening teaching, blended learning and flipped classroom approach. Chapter three introduces the methodology applied in the study including participants, research procedures, research materials applied, data collection methods and data analysis. Chapter four mainly presents the results and discussion related to the study, including quantitative and qualitative data. Chapter five provides the summaries, limitations and pedagogical implementations of the application of the flipped classroom approach of the study.