The effect of integrated English reading and writing classes using flipped learning on Korean university students’ reading ability

플립러닝 기반 영어 읽기·쓰기 통합수업이 대학생들의 읽기능력에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of integrated English reading and writing classes using flipped learning on Korean university students’ reading ability. This study involved the development of flipped leaning model for integrated English reading and writing teaching and learning. The experiment was implemented for 15 weeks with 113 Korean university students. Fifty-seven of them took integrated English reading and writing classes using flipped learning as an experimental group and the others took integrated English reading and writing classes traditionally as a control group. The results were as follows. First, the experimental group showed more improvement in their English reading ability than the control group, which showed a statistical difference between the both. This suggested that integrated English reading and writing using flipped learning was effective in college English classes. Second, students’ opinions toward the class revealed that students participated in the classes more actively through the integrated and cooperative learning activities. Therefore, it is concluded that integrated English reading and writing classes using flipped learning can be an effective teaching method. Based on this study, some guidelines for effective English reading and writing classes were suggested.