Evaluating flipped classroom/education method in English teaching

This study aims to search for the effect of Flipped Classroom/Education which is a brand new teaching method on academic success and durability of knowledge in English teaching. Research includes two groups studying at compulsory English preparation class in 2013-2014 academic year and each group stands as control and experiment group once in two applications. The research employs pretest-posttest control group design. The test which has been developed by the researcher is used to collect the data and the difference between control and experiment groups' mean is tested to examine if there is a meaningful difference in the rate of ,05. Various statistical tests are used to test the difference between groups. Besides, focus group interviews have been carried out in order to collect personal opinions of students considering this new teaching method and descriptive and content analysis have been done on collected data. The test scores of experiment groups who have been taught with Flipped Classroom method in both applications have been found to be better than the control groups taught with Traditional Teaching method and the difference between groups has been meaningful. The rate of the positive comments is %73,77 while the rate of negative comments is 17,39 according to the student comments on the new teaching method. Keywords: Flipped Classroom/Education, Computer Assisted Learning, English Education