La Classe inversée dans les pratiques de l'enseignement du FLE

Taking account of learners' language and pedagogical needs as well as their autonomous learning are the priorities of the action oriented language teaching. However, modeling language courses by rigorously respecting the three classical pedagogical units (which consists in learning the same thing, in the same class and at the same time as the others) does not always allow language learners to progress at their own pace or to use their own strategies. It is therefore important to design learning contexts in such a way as to assure the personalization of the learning process and to reconcile the best parts of the face-to-face learning and the distance learning. The flipped classroom, which involves consulting the course content in advance and making more efficient activities such consolidation and production during the course time, is one of the hybrid models developed in this perspective. The present study was carried out in order to observe the effects of this model on the grammatical and lexical knowledge of the learners of French as a foreign language and to reveal their evaluations on the implementation of the model. In this study where we used both quantitative and qualitative methods, 20 learners enrolled in the preparatory classes in the academic year 2015-2016 received, during 8 weeks, contents to be treated at the home and at their own pace. By following the "single-group pre-test-post-test model", we administered a test to our sample before and after each intervention. As for the collection of qualitative data, we conducted semi-directed interviews with 10 learners following our experimentation phase. After comparing the pre-test and post-test results, we found a statistically significant improvement in the learners' knowledge included in the quantitative analysis. In the analysis of qualitative data, we consulted two specialists and identified the following themes: Learner's opinions on the flipped classroom, effects of the flipped classroom on learners' ways of learning, ways in which learners appropriate the flipped classroom, learners' opinions on videos, learners' opinions on continuation of the model, suggestions of learners for future practices of the model. Keywords: Blended learning, Flipped classroom, French as a foreign language, Autonomy, Learning strategies.