영어로 매개된 기초 영어학 강좌를 통한 비판적 문식성 신장 방안: ‘거꾸로 학습’적 접근

Abstract

This action research explores ways of improving college freshmen’s critical English literacy through an English-mediated introductory English linguistics course at a college of education. The researcher/instructor has designed the course under a flipped learning approach in that he provided two video clips and two accompanying PPT files for each of the twelve topics and asked the 35 student participants to critically preview them along with relevant chapters from the textbook, and to prepare materials for group discussions and later exercise solutions for class presentation. The instructor at every chance encouraged them to think critically through lectures and discussion sessions. An analysis of the student responses and products shows that the flipped design has worked, that most of the participants became better critical thinkers, and that most of them came to have a higher level of English literacy. On the basis of these results, this research has concluded that the flipped learning approach to the introductory course on English linguistics has engendered a working course model for enhancing “critical English literacy.” It has also shown that there is a significant room for improvement: First, a long-term meta-curriculum needs to be developed to systematically develop critical English literacy in various facets of critical thinking. Second, a genre analysis should be undertaken to prepare contents for teaching academic English literacy more systematically.