Using Flipped Classroom for Developing EFL Listening Comprehension Skills and Self-efficacy of Secondary Stage Students

The current study aimed at developing some EFL listening comprehension skills and self- efficacy for second year Formal secondary school students through the use of Flipped classroom. The study adopted the quasi-experimental pre-posttest, experimental /control groups. Participants were first-year secondary school students. Two groups (20 each) were from Yousef Atwan Formal School, Sharkya Governorate in the academic year 2020-2021. The experimental group was taught through Flipped classroom for developing their listening comprehension skills and self-efficacy. On the other hand, the control group received regular instruction. Instruments were: A listening comprehension skills test and a scale for self-efficacy, approved by a panel of jury. Listening comprehension skills test and the scale were administered to the participants before teaching them. By the end of the experiment, the test and the scale were post administered to both groups to find out the effect of the Flipped classroom on developing the experimental group students' listening comprehension skills and their self- efficacy. Findings of the study were statistically dealt with via the Statistical Package for the Social Science software (SPSS). It was found out that the experimental group achieved more gains in their EFL listening comprehension skills and self- efficacy.