Flipped Classroom for Writing Skills: Views from Pre-University Students’ Lens towards Effective Writing

Abstract

The emergence of technology has paved the way for 21 st century learning the world over. Education empowered by technology has shaped Malaysian ESL Sixth Form pre-university students to become autonomous learners. Technology related approaches such as the flipped classroom has allowed better preparations for classroom lessons in writing skills among form six students. Despite the various research done on the use of flipped classroom to improve writing skills among secondary students, very few studies have been conducted on enhancing ESL Sixth Form pre-university students' skills in writing through the use of flipped classroom. Therefore, this study aims to explore the Malaysian Sixth Form students' perception towards the use of flipped classroom in enhancing writing skills. A quantitative approach which involves a pre-test, a post-test and a survey research design was chosen for this study. 21 Form Six students from a Form Six college in Klang, Selangor has been selected as respondents through purposive sampling. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data and the results of the survey indicates that the use of flipped classroom is able to enhance the effectiveness of writing skills among ESL Sixth Form pre-university students.