Implementing flipped classroom model in developing basic language arts of the fourth grade students

Abstract

This study aims to examine the role of the Flipped Classroom Model (FCM) in the development of the basic language skills of 4th grade students in Turkish language lesson. In this respect, in the 4th grade Turkish language lesson in which the FCM was used, the views of fourth-grade students, their teachers, and parents related to the circumstances and process occurred during the implementation of the FCM in improving the basic language skills of students were investigated. The study was designed in the action research. The study was conducted with thirteen activities in the fourth grade Turkish language lesson and lasted nine weeks and 45 course hours. Data were collected from observations, interviews, documents, action plans, learning materials and validation committee meeting decisions. According to results the activities carried out during the implementation contributed to the development of language skills of the students. It was also seemed that students’ various cognitive, affective, psychomotor and social skills developed, that improvements happened in terms of classroom management, and that behavioral problems which affect the implementation process decreased. In addition, students, their teachers and parents were observed to have positive opinions regarding the FCM and the implementation process.