The Effects of Flipped Classroom towards Students' Writing Ability of Recount Text in Senior High School in Indonesia

摘要

The flipped classroom can be a solution to teach English in this digital era especially in teaching writing for students in senior high school. By applying a flipped classroom, the English teachers have a lot of time to interact with the students in the classroom because of the materials sent through digital tools. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the effect of the flipped classroom towards students' writing ability of recount text at the tenth-grade students of science class of SMA N 1 Lintau Buo in 2018/2019 academic year. The design of the research was quasi-experimental. The population of this research was the tenth-grade students of science class of SMA N 1 Lintau Buo in 2018/2019 academic year consisted of 4 classes (117 students). The samples were chosen by using cluster random sampling. The samples were X IPA 1 students as the experimental class (32 students) and X IPA 2 as the control class (30 students). The instrument used to get the data was writing test of recount text. The normality, homogeneity and hypothesis testing were used to analyze the data. The result of the research showed that there was no significant difference between a flipped classroom and conventional strategy on students' writing ability of recount text. This model did not give a better effect because the students have low motivation in learning online materials independently.