Flipped Classroom: An Effective Methodology to Improve Writing Skills of EFL Students

Abstract

This study proposes a flipped classroom methodology in the context of a group pre/post-quasi-experimental study to improve the writing skills of EFL students, with a particular emphasis on writing topic sentences, supporting sentences, concluding sentences, adjectives, adverbs, and sentence structures correctly. The research sample consisted of 25 EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students studying the course titled “Technical Report Writing,” adopting flipped classroom methodology. The effectiveness of students' writing skills before and after the experiment was evaluated by researchers through pre- and post-experimental exams. Results for the post-test were influenced by the dependent-sample t-test. It was determined that the flipped classroom remarkably improved EFL students' writing abilities. Other EFL teaching and learning challenges may be addressed through implications with the additional study into flipped classroom approaches.