期刊名称：The Journal of Teaching English With Technology
印刷版ISSN：1642-1027
出版年度：2020
卷号：20
期号：1
页码：122-139
出版社：IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group
摘要：Flipped classroom innovation has attracted the attention of English Language Teaching (ELT)researchers to examine its effectiveness. This inquiry, therefore, elaborates on the effect offlipping (i.e. reversing) individual and collaborative instruction using a WhatsApp applicationon the cohesive ability of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners as one of the essentialelements of writing skills. A quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group anda pre-test/post-test design was implemented to find any significant difference between the twocombinations. The first group (N=25) was treated using 5 to 10 minutes of cohesion-basedvideo materials and tasks from the WhatsApp group activities of the group members.Meanwhile, the second group (N=25) was treated similarly using individual WhatsAppactivities. The findings reveal that the mean score from the collaborative group at 66.17 ishigher than the mean score of individual ones at 50.19 with a level of significance <0.05. Thismeans that teaching the topic of cohesion in writing using a flipped approach instruction modelthrough the WhatsApp group turns out to be more effective than the individual one. The resultssuggest that teaching cohesion using a flipped approach through collaborative WhatsApplearning activities may serve as one of the suitable alternatives to improve EFL learners’cohesion in writing.
