The effect of flipped learning on the improvement or level of listening skills of high school students in Khoram Abad city

This study was an attempt to research the impact of flipped vocabulary learning on listening achievement. To this end, the statistical population of the present study constituted ۶۰ High school students in Khoram Abad city who were selected from among a total number of ۷۰ based on their performance on the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP) and randomly assigned to one experimental and a control group. The experimental group was taught based on flipped vocabulary learning while the students in the comparison group received no such instruction. After that for teaching listening which is selected from TACTICS textbook, first for experimental class, teacher taught the unknown and new vocabulary which is in the listening text by the flipped method. An online dictionary before teaching the listening was used as a flipped method for teaching words by the researcher. In online dictionary, the researcher introduced an online dictionary and wanted the learners to check the new words, synonyms and antonyms to familiarize themselves with new words. For every listening class, the learners should learn ۲۰ target words before class. After that, the listening section was taught. For control group was act like traditional method, some minutes before teaching listening the teacher taught unknown words by telling the synonyms and antonyms and meanings in Persian. The obtained data were analyzed using the ANCOVA procedure. The findings of the study demonstrated that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group. Also, the result suggested that flipped vocabulary learning can be used as an effective instructional tool to help learners improve their listening achievement. The findings of the present study can have theoretical and practical implications for learners, teachers and syllabus designers.

Keywords:

flipped learning , EFL learners' , intermediate learners , listening comprehension