Assessing perceptions and evaluating achievements of ESL students with the usage of infographics in a flipped classroom learning environment

ABSTRACT

Today, technologies are utilized extensively to support the process of learning according to learner needs. Hence, the advances in technology and ideology have prompted new directions in the second language (L2) instructional practices. This study is carried out in regard to the usage of infographics in a flipped classroom learning environment called “Flipped Classroom Instructional Infographics”. The goal of the research is to assess the perceptions and evaluate the achievements of ESL students in learning English language through flipped classroom instructional infographics. The study is designed as a case study and uses a mixed research method (quantitative and qualitative) in order to obtain the result in a more consistent manner. The data are gathered from 130 students by means of a questionnaire and a focus group interview is conducted to explore the “students' perceptions of infographics”, “students' perceptions of the FCII learning environment” and “students' academic achievements level”. The findings of the study indicate that students' motivations in the experimental group compared to the control group are more triggered by the engaging and comprehensive nature of flipped classroom instructional infographics, meaning that they could absorb the concepts easier, memorize the information faster, and become more confident in the educational process.

KEYWORDS:

• Digital literacy
• visual literacy
• infographics
• flipped classroom

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Huseyin Bicen

Huseyin Bicen ([email protected]) was born in Nicosia on December 31, 1986. He began lecturing computer and educational technologies related courses in 2007, at the Near East University, Ataturk Faculty of Education, in Computer Education and Instructional Technologies department, as a lecturer. Since July 2015, he has been Associate Professor on the same Department. Since October 2013, he has been Head of Distance Learning Centre and Department of Human Resources Development in Education. Hüseyin Bicen has two (2) national academic content book published by reputable publishing houses. Eight (8) of his articles was indexed at Social Sciences Index (SSCI) and thirty (35) were indexed in the Educational field indexes (Web of Science, British Education Index, ERIC, Science Direct, Scopus etc.).

Mobina Beheshti

Mobina Beheshti ([email protected]) was born on 22 Jun 1986, Iran, where she earned her high school diploma. Seeking for more adventures, at the age of 18 she moved to Cyprus to commence her academic career at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). Mobina continued her master studies in Information Systems right after receiving her bachelor diploma in Information Technology from EMU in 2010. Having finished her master's program in 2012, she started to work at EMU's Distance Education Institute as an Instructional Designer and System Manager until 2016, when she started her Ph.D. program at Near East University (NEU) in Computer and Technology Education. In the same year, Mobina secured a senior instructorship position at EMU's School of Computing and Technology, where she is still teaching. During her graduate studies, she has published 8 articles so far, which are mostly concentrated on Educational Science and Instructional Technology and were indexed in the Educational fields: SCOPUS, EBSCO, Google Scholar, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index – CPCI (ISI Web of Science) etc.