Motivation and Attitudes of Secondary School Students in Hajjah Governorate Towards English Teachers’ Use of the Flipped Classroom StrategyMotivation and Attitudes of Secondary School Students in Hajjah Governorate Towards English Teachers’ Use of the Flipped Classroom Strategy

Abstract

The current study is aimed at investigating students’ attitudes and motivation towards the use of the flipped classroom as a strategy for teaching English at secondary schools in Hajjah province. To this end, the study adopted a quantitative descriptive approach. A sample of thirty students were selected randomly from the 10^th grade student population (91) of the schooling year 2023-2024 at Alzahra’a girls secondary school in Hajjah province. Two closed-ended questionnaires were designed according to Likert scale to measure students’ attitudes and motivation towards the flipped classroom strategy after the completion of the experiment (teaching English to the sample students using the flipped classroom strategy). The SPSS program was used to analyze the collected data. The obtained data were calculated and tabulated for analysis using descriptive statistics (Mean-standard deviation). The informants’ responses showed that the tenth grade students were motivated when the teacher used the flipped classroom strategy. The overall mean score of the students’ motivation scale was M = 4.14 with a Standard Deviation of =1.09. The responses to the attitude-related items of the questionnaire also indicated that the sample students had a positive attitude towards using the flipped classroom strategy in English classes. The overall mean score of the students’ attitude scale was 4.12 and the SD = 1.08. The study recommends further research on the effectiveness of this strategy using larger populations of English learners at other educational institutions such as language institutes, colleges and universities.