Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective

Volume: 6 Number: 2 December 25, 2018
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Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective

Abstract

This current study presents the results of a research about changing the stream of a traditional prep school class into a flipped one.23 students f:13, m: 10 studying at a government university participated in the research. The research took 14 weeks to be carried out in the spring term of 2016-2017 academic year. During the research, the researcher changed the weekly face-to face schedule of the EFL class into flipped one with an aim of observing the effects of the flipping procedure on students’ school grades and their motivation. Also, the students were enrolled to an LMS to make synchronous classes each week. Then, demo classes for one week were carried out in order to orientate the students to the LMS software. In order to be able to reach the perspectives of the students, both an online questionnaire and individual interviews were employed. During the data collection phase of the study, in order to reach students’ perspectives both an online questionnaire and individual interviews were carried out.The results indicated that using a flipped EFL model is more effective than a traditional EFL class to improve the English level. In addition, the students were asked to express their feelings about language learning by individual interviews. Moreover, all of the students expressed that having no obligations and limitations made us focus on our topic more effectively and by this way we could study English whenever and wherever we wanted.To sum up, this study revealed that flipping a prep school class can boost students’ academic success, their motivation and also can contribute to their economic situation

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Soner Sözler This is me

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December 25, 2018

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Year 2018 Volume: 6 Number: 2

APA
Sözler, S. (2018). Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi, 6(2), 317-325. https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE
AMA
1.Sözler S. Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective. KJES. 2018;6(2):317-325. https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE
Chicago
Sözler, Soner. 2018. “Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 6 (2): 317-25. https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE.
EndNote
Sözler S (December 1, 2018) Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 6 2 317–325.
IEEE
[1]S. Sözler, “Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective”, KJES, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 317–325, Dec. 2018, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE
ISNAD
Sözler, Soner. “Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 6/2 (December 1, 2018): 317-325. https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE.
JAMA
1.Sözler S. Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective. KJES. 2018;6:317–325.
MLA
Sözler, Soner. “Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 2, Dec. 2018, pp. 317-25, https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE.
Vancouver
1.Soner Sözler. Flipping A Prep School EFL Class: Students’ Perspective. KJES [Internet]. 2018 Dec. 1;6(2):317-25. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA68YT49HE