Frontiers in Psychology
Fostering speaking gains through flipped instruction: a mixed-methods study of self-regulation, motivation, and foreign language classroom anxiety in Chinese EFL learners
Introduction Flipped instruction has gained traction in computer-assisted language learning, but evidence of its effects on L2 speaking and the underlying affective and motivational mechanisms remains limited, especially for young adult EFL learners in East Asia. Methods This explanatory sequential mixed methods study examined how a 16-week flipped speaking course influenced Chinese EFL learners' speaking performance, speaking-specific self-regulation, motivation, and foreign language classroom anxiety. Seventy-fou …