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Table 1 TC/RFG/PFG instructional course materials

From: Flipping the flipped class: using online collaboration to enhance EFL students’ oral learning skills

Academic skills area

Skills and strategies

Weeks/videos lessons

1. Coherence and cohesion

Signposting

Discourse—structuring patterns

Discourse pattern recognition

Wk1-Vid1a, Wk7-Vid7; Wk8-Vid8, Wk9/10-Vid9/10(2 vids), Wk11/12-Vid11/12 (2 vids)

2. Lexical

Vocabulary building (content and functional words, collocations)

Signpost words and phrases

Summarization and note-taking skills

Wk3-Vid3, Wk8-Vid8, Wk9/10-Vid9/10 (2 vids), Wk11/12-Vid11/12 (2 vids)

3. Grammar and accuracy

Extended speech—sentence structuring

Verb tense recognition and construction

Wk2-Vid2, Wk9/10-Vid9/10 (2 vids)

4. Pronunciation

Intonation and word/sentence stressing

Fluency—chunking, linking and reduction

Wk4-Vid4, Wk5/6-Vid5/6 (2 vids), Wk7-Vid7

  1. TC Textbook: Each academic skills areas and associated English skill and strategies were covered in the text’s leading instructional chapters
  2. aWk1-Vid1 = Week 1 and video 1 lesson was pre-assigned for the 2nd week of the course—the 1st and last weeks (1st and last classes) involved the course introduction, pre-tests and post-tests