Educators in the twenty- first century are constantly adopting new technologies and pedagogies. Flipped Classroom Model is one of the most promising approaches to transforming learning experiences, which has been applied to both K-12 education and higher education at home and abroad. Influenced by culture and learning styles, the effectiveness and concrete implementation strategies of this teaching model is different in different countries. How to localize the model in China is an important question for educators to think about. The paper makes suggestions for implementing Flipped Classroom in China, aiming at helping teachers to flip their classrooms successfully.
In the globalized world, cross-cultural communication is becoming more common and frequent. Conflicts can easily occur when people from different cultures meet and communicate with each other. The book Everything I Never Told You written by Celeste Ng and published by New Your: Penguin Press in 2014 narrates the failure of cross-cultural communication through storytelling. It is a good material for readers who are interested in studying cross-cultural communication. The paper introduces the main contents of the book and make comments on this book.
