Students’ and Teacher’s Insight on the Flipped Classroom Model in Academic Writing Class

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the insights of students and teacher in the implementation of online-based instruction with the Flipped Learning method applied in academic writing class, where students get material online from the teacher and study independently at home. Flipped classroom is basically a combination of e-learning and face-to-face instructional principles. This study involved Indonesian university students and 1 teacher who applied flipped learning method in an academic writing class. The result shows that students tend to like this method because it saves more time and the material can be repeated according to their needs. On the other hand, the teacher also likes the implementation of this method because students become more active in discussions with the knowledge they have gained prior to the class. However, students also admit that they are still unfamiliar with online learning platform used. The teacher also has difficulty in finding suitable teaching materials that can attract students' interests. However, in general, students and teacher both agree that the implementation of flipped learning in writing class is suitable.