The Impact of Mobile Aided Flipped Learning (MAFL) on Iranian EFL Learners' Writing Accuracy, Fluency, and Complexity

In the third millennium, language learning has been influenced by technology. Also, writing is seen as one of the main necessary skills for every learner to communicate. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mobile aided flipped learning (MAFL) on Iranian EFL learners' writing accuracy, fluency, and complexity. The participants comprised of ۴۵ EFL learners who were selected randomly via the Nelson test and an opinion paragraph writing test as pretest and were divided into three equal groups, i.e., one control and two experimental groups. The two experimental groups, one individual and the other in collaborative form, were undergone The treatments of ۸ sessions of flipped learning using WhatsApp to receive writing instructions in videos and slides before attending class. In the control group; however, the traditional way of learning writing took place. The researchers were the instructors as well. And writing feedback, corrections, and the course book was the same for all three groups. At the end of the treatment, another opinion paragraph writing test with different topics was administered to see the effect of MAFL. Using SPSS software and One-way MANOVA statistical procedure, the data analysis revealed that using MAFL had a statistically significant effect on the participants’ writing accuracy, fluency, and complexity. Moreover, further statistical analysis showed MAFL collaborative group outperformed the individual MAFL. The findings of the current research study can have implications for language teachers, learners, and material developers.

کلیدواژه ها:

Flipped Learning ، Mobile Aided Language Learning ، Writing Accuracy ، Writing Fluency ، Writing Complexity