چکیده:
Flipped learning is an instructional approach that underlines the efficient use of classroom time by shifting the conventional activities of learners and educators in and out of the class. In flipped learning, students' roles as passive listeners change to active participants in classroom activities. The present study was designed to build a model of flipped classroom instruction (FCI) for the general IELTS writing. Additionally, this research intended to examine if there is a meaningful difference between the students’ general IELTS writing scores in the flipped class and those in the conventional class. An FCI model was carefully developed based on the thematic analysis of the previous flipped classroom studies about writing. Then it was operationally explained for a general IELTS writing class. The participants of the study consisted of 100 male and female Iranian EFL learners. Fifty learners were randomly selected to experience FCI and the other fifty learners received conventional classroom instruction. The findings revealed that the learners in the flipped classes, on average, acquired higher scores than the learners in conventional classes.
خلاصه ماشینی:
On the Development of a Tentative Model of a Flipped Classroom Instruction and Its Effect on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ General IELTS Writing* Dr. Rahman Sahragard (Corresponding author) ** Professor of TEFL, Department of Foreign Languages, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract Flipped learning is an instructional approach that underlines the efficient use of classroom time by shifting the conventional activities of learners and educators in and out of the class.
The present study was designed to build a model of flipped classroom instruction (FCI) for the general IELTS writing.
ir Introduction Flipped classroom instruction (FCI) is regarded as a learning approach that highlights the efficient use of class period by shifting the conventional activities of learners and educators in and out of the class.
Concerning the aforementioned gaps about the flipped classroom studies, the current research intends to develop a practical model of a FCI for a writing class and implement it for the general IELTS writing class to analyze its efficacy and to compare the results with those obtained from a conventional IELTS writing classroom.
Literature Review In a typical flipped classroom, learners are greatly active in individualized and collaborative student-centered tasks, thus the sustaining theories of the FCI are originated in core view of active learning (Hung, 2015).
Data Collection Procedure The first question of the present research attempted to find out the components of the FCI model for a general IELTS writing course.