Implementing the Flipped Classroom Model and the CEFR to Enhance Learners' 21st Century Skills

Abstract

The recent pandemic shook the educational world to its core, changing the way in which teachers teach and learners learn. Online technologies infiltrated teaching and created a new landscape for learners. What if we used these new technologies to improve the way students are taught? This chapter will focus on the flipped classroom model as an example of blended learning in the EFL field, where technology plays a vital role in the delivery of instruction, and especially during the pandemic. The pre-class time that the flipped approach sheds light on can help support more creative and collaborative activities in the classroom, since there is no need for traditional instruction. This way, the interaction between the teacher and the learners, but also between learners themselves, can become the base for developing several of what has become known as 21st century skills. Emphasis is placed on the elements of Bloom's revised taxonomy, as well as the CEFR, as the main frameworks guiding foreign language teaching and learning.