Table 6 Classification of non-empirical studies.
From: Research on flipped classrooms in foreign language teaching in Chinese higher education
Categories | Sub-categories | Research Foci | f | % | Example study |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Literature review | Traditional review | Narrative review of the existing literature on the FC research | 3 | 2.3 | Deng (2016) |
Descriptive studies | Introduction + discussion | Introduced FCs and discussed the feasibility of FCs in FLT or discussed the strengths and challenges of using FCs. | 66 | 46.6 | Lu (2014) |
Introduction + description | Introduced FCs and described the whole process of designing and applying the FC model in the researcher’s class. | 59 | 45 | Shen and Sheng (2015) | |
Introduction + comparison | Introduced FCs and compared them with traditional classes or compared FCs in Chinese classes with FCs in American classes. | 3 | 2 | Wang et al. (2016) |
