مجلة النص
Volume 3, Numéro 2, Pages 11-36
2016-09-15

Flipped Classroom: A State Of Normalized Call

Authors : Miloud Bouchefra .

Abstract

The ultimate goal of any CALL project is to completely normalize the presence of ICT in language teaching and learning context. However, between the inability of current technologies to live up to stakeholders’ expectations and unrealistic assumptions held towards educational technologies in terms of their role and ability, a full state of CALL normalization, according to Bax 2003, is still far from being achieved even in the most technologically advanced countries. Nevertheless, the advent of new innovative approaches, in the image of the Flipped Classroom, that shifted the attention away from technology itself and directed it towards other rather important aspects in teaching and learning process, a state of CALL normalization has been reached though it went unnoticed despite its compliance with all the normalization criteria set by Bax (2000,2003,2006,2011). This article argues that the state of CALL normalization has been achieved under the flipped classroom approach, and that in order for CALL normalized cases to be recognized there is a need for a reconsideration of some aspects of Bax’s original definition

Keywords

Flipped Classroom-The ultimate goal -technologies-State of normalized Call