Abstract
This paper investigates Saudi intermediate students’ attitudes towards using flipped learning via an online learning community to enhance their speaking skill at a Saudi female’s public-school number 186. The writer observed and analysed the effect of using flipped learning in an online community on the development and engagement of students in speaking tasks. The study uses a quantitative quasi-experimental method to describe and analyse the student’s attitudes and development of the speaking skill among Arabic-speaking students in the public-school number 186 in Saudi Arabia during the academic year 2019-2020. The researcher applied a questionnaire and an observation checklist as the main instrument to achieve the study goal. The findings of the study were not statistically significant regarding the effect of flipped learning via an Online Learning Community (OLC) on the development of students’ speaking skill. However, there was a slight difference in the mean scores in favor to the post-test of the experimental group. The students’ attitudes were positive towards the flipped learning via OLC for speaking tasks.
Highlights
Communicative competence is known to be the main objective in the curriculums of teaching ESL and EFL (Alsudais, 2017)
Results of the Study 4.1 Data Analysis 4.1.1 Results of the First Question of the Study The first question of the study is (What positive/negative effect flipped learning via Online Learning Communities (OLC) can offer for speaking tasks?), and two open-ended questions in the questionnaire collected the answers to this question
4.1.3 Results of the Third Question of the Study The third question of the study is (Is there any significant development in the participants’ speaking skill after being involved in flipped learning via OLC as a teaching strategy?), and the answers for this question was collected by using pre-test and post-test
Summary
Communicative competence is known to be the main objective in the curriculums of teaching ESL and EFL (Alsudais, 2017). “Language is basically speech” and speaking is known as producing meaningful expressions by pronunciation of words from the mouth (Bashir, Azeem, & Dogar, 2011) This skill requires safe classroom environment as well as acceptance and encouragement to enhance student’s engagement with speaking tasks (Arnold & Paulus, 2010). 1.1 Research Objectives The aim of this research is to have a better understanding of Saudi secondary students’ attitudes towards English speaking tasks in flipped learning via an OLC instead of conventional classroom tasks and instruction. This is a proposed solution to the issue of time constrains in the English periods in Saudi public schools. It may help teachers who are struggling with the demand to cover the textbook content entirely in prespecified timetables (Al-Seghayer, 2014). 1.2 Research Questions The research aims to explore whether the participants had a negative or a positive attitude towards the implementation of speaking tasks via OLC as well as identifying the level of their satisfaction and their development in the speaking skill
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