TITLE:
Effect of the Flipped Classroom Model on Chinese Non-English-Majored College Students’ Translation Skills
AUTHORS:
Yougen Lou, Yueqing Du, Zejuan Li, Pin Gong, Yangmei Li
KEYWORDS:
The Flipped Classroom, Translation Class, Performances
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.4,
April
30,
2017
ABSTRACT: This paper reviewed a one-term experiment on the flipped classroom model in teaching translation skills to 124 first-year non-English-majored undergraduate students from Yangtze University as participants. Participants in this study consisted of 62 non-English-majored undergraduate students in the control group (CG) and 62 non-English-majored undergraduate students in the treatment group (TG). The process of the flipped classroom model in translation teaching and learning was divided into the three parts: outside of the flipped classroom, inside of the flipped classroom and outside of the flipped classroom. The results showed that: 1) compared with a teacher-dominated approach for CG, the flipped classroom translation model instruction for TG did a better job in enhancing students’ translation skills; 2) there were significant differences between males in CG and TG, and females in CG and EG; 3) students in TG held the positive response for the flipped classroom model in translation teaching and learning.