(635)FLIPPED MODEL OF INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: A KAZAKHSTANI PERSPECTIVE

摘要

The purpose of this pilot study is to explore Kazakhstani students' attitudes towards the ESLinstructional videos to identify the features that are the most and least helpful for grammar,vocabulary, and listening skills acquisition. The analysis of students' open-ended questionnaire andstatistics from the Analytics section of the Office Mix platform has revealed that ESL students findinstructional videos and exercises helpful for grammar, listening comprehension, vocabulary, andpronunciation enhancement. The videos also motivate them to learn English. Additionally, the amountof time spent for the flipped classroom preparation was less than the traditional classroom approach.In respect of technological features, the videos should support subtitles and fonts should be bigenough to enable watching them on mobile phones. The instructional videos should offer differenttypes of exercises, instant feedback, and more real-life examples. The background music should beremoved from the instructional videos because it can disturb some of the students.