Fatimah Saadi Ali
English Language Teaching Department, Faculty of Education, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq
Abstract
The last decade was the time of the Internet rebellion, which had huge control over learning. Models in teaching languages continuously discover new training to join innovative technology with their teaching. Delivering lectures and doing activities are exchanged in the flipped classroom method. It means that learning occurs at home while giving clarifications and tasks in classes. The researchers in EFL classrooms investigated all skills, reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students’ perception is the vital point. This review article focuses on students’ perceptions regarding the flipped method in EFL classes, published in the last four years. Five articles were chosen with focus criteria: flipped classroom, students’ perceptions, and English as a Foreign Language. This review study used thematic analysis to analyze the review articles. The results of the study revealed that 2023 was the lucky year to have two published papers and grammar skills were mostly used in these five articles. Iran, as the setting of the studies, was localized more than other countries in these selectively reviewed papers. It also showed that students had positive views toward the flipped classroom and improved their academic performances. Moreover, English foreign classrooms were mostly implemented in flipped classrooms rather than separate skills like writing, reading, and grammar.
Keywords: Student perspectives, flipped classroom, EFL classrooms, innovative approaches