The effect of flipped classroom model on the academic achievements and attitudes of students in English language teaching

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Flipped Classroom model on students' learning a new grammar structure and their attitudes towards the English course. For this aim, the study was carried out for 6 weeks with 56 students studying in five different preparatory classes at Bülent Ecevit University Foreign Languages School in the fall term of 2015-2016 academic year. In the study, two different groups were defined as the experimental group and the control group. During the courses, 'Flipped Classroom' model was used for the students in the experimental group while traditional method was used in the control group. In the study, 'non-equivalent control groups pre-test post-test model' was used. As instruments, an achievement test and an attitude scale towards the English course were used. The achievement test and attitude scale were applied as pre-test and post-test. As a result, it was found that 'Flipped Classroom' model is significantly and positively more effective on students' academic achievements and attitudes than traditional method.