The Effects of Flipped Classrooms on English Composition Writing in an EFL Environment

Literature Review

To date, the majority of studies examining the effects of flipped classrooms have focused on mathematics or sciences such as biology. A number of these have concentrated on either reporting on how the flipped classroom was conducted or students’ opinions of this way of presenting the text in class. Moraros et al. (2015), for example, looked at the effectiveness of flipped classrooms with 67 Public Health students studying for a Master’s degree. The majority (i.e., 80%) of subjects found flipped classrooms to be effective, although these perceived effects did not prove to reflect their grades in the course. Moraros et al. did, however, claim that students who felt flipping the classroom was an effective way of teaching also tended to display more satisfaction with the course.