SKKN The effectiveness of flipped classroom on enhancing 10th grade students’ English grammar learning.

PART I: INTRODUCTION

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. Rationale

In Viet Nam, English is regarded as one of the most significant subjects at

all level of education. Learning grammar is a difficult problem for students.

Grammar are language components which are essential to the mastery of all the

four skills. We cannot use any language skill without using grammar and

vocabulary. Grammar is not an end in itself but it is a means to an end to improve

learners’ proficiency in the four language skills. Working as a teacher of English,

I am particularly interested in teaching Grammar. Especially the way to enhance

students interest in learning Grammar. For that reason, I am concerned with

approaches and methods which can help to enhance the learners’ grammar

proficiency as well as facilitate their learning English as a second language.

Nowadays, Flipped Classroom in Vietnam is at the stage of exploring and

studying. Some schools adopt the Flipped Classroom in their common class and try

to apply it into traditional class properly. However, the application of Flipped

Classroom in English grammar teaching in high school is litter than other fields. In

my paper, I focus on the application of Flipped Classroom in English grammar

teaching in Quy Hop 3 high school, and the purpose is to create a new teaching

method for teachers to make full use of class time to teach grammar effectively.

According to my paper, teachers can have the opportunity to use a feasible

and relatively complete teaching system, which can transform students from

passive learners to active learners, in their traditional class. By learning this theory

teachers can make full use of classroom time to lead in and teach lessons after

understanding, testing and analyzing students’ needs before class; It not only

supplies teachers a feasible and relatively complete teaching system to teach

English grammar in second high school, but also provides students a wonderful

chance to decide when and how to learn by themselves. As a result, more and more

English teachers and students can be benefit from it, and more and more attractive

and interesting classes will be produced. In this way, both teacher and student can

learn more from it.

The flipped classroom is one of the most ambitious ideas in education,

which emerged in the last decade of the twentieth century with the aim of meeting

the needs of learners and promoting learner-centered learning, using very simple

technologies. The flipped class can affect the teacher’s instructional practice and

their interaction with students and even communication with parents. The main

difference between the presentation method in the flipped classroom and the

traditional classroom is that the teacher becomes a guide and facilitator of the

learning process instead of the lecturer and controller of the teaching process. The

flipped class gives students control over the teaching process by stopping and

rewinding the teacher’s teaching video. In this way, students with different levels

of proficiency can listen to or see the teacher’s teaching over and over again,

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without being accused of being retarded by their classmates. Therefore, the

students themselves take the main responsibility of planning for the lesson and

learn the educational materials without any worries. This study investigated the

effectiveness of flipped classroom on enhancing 10th grade students’ English

grammar learning.

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. Objectives of the Study

The aim of this study was to apply the flipped classroom strategy in teaching

English grammar to examine its impact on Quy hop 3 high school students’

performances, perceptions, and attitudes toward learning English independently. ;

and after every step of the way; I find out a more effective way to support and help

students to learn English grammar better. I hope that the findings of the study will

partly help to decide whether to apply this technique again in the future or what

changes can be made to improve the quality and the effectiveness of the method.

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. Scope of the Study

The study was conducted on the teachers and students of grade 10 with the

new textbook “English 10” global success at Quy Hop 3 High school.

The study used a convenience sample of participants. The researcher selected

this sample in particular because the students were already familiar with zalo.

In addition, a placement test was completed by the control and experimental

groups to evaluate if both groups had similar proficiency levels in English grammar.

Questionnaires are used for 7 teachers and 84 students of 10A1, 10A2.

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. Research Methods

The aim of the current research is to investigate the impact of applying flipped

classroom as a method to enhance English grammar for students at Quy Hop 3 high

school. I implemented the flipped classroom strategy by selecting videos based on

the students’ textbook and uploading those videos on the zalo before each lesson to

provide opportunities for active learning interactions. The students of the

experimental group were required to watch the videos to learn by themselves and to

come to class prepared to ask for clarification, if needed. They also practiced what

they had learned under the teacher’s supervision by completing collaborative and

competitive tasks in groups or pairs. Meanwhile, the control group students received

in-class only traditional teaching. They learned the grammatical lessons without the

help of any videos. There were 5 units in this experiment. At the beginning of the

experiment, a placement test was completed by the experimental and control groups

to determine whether there were significant differences between them regarding

their proficiency levels in L2 grammar. During the implementation of the research

process, the experimental and control groups studied the same 5 grammatical topics.

For that reason, both quantitative and qualitative methods are applied in this research

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by using pre-test, post-test to find out the effectiveness of flipped class method and

questionnaires, semi-structured interview as tools to collect the participants’

perception towards the applied method.