Flipping your writing lessons: Optimizing time in your EFL writing classroom

Abstract

This chapter presents the process followed by two University professors in flipping the writing component in a general English as a Foreign Language classroom in Colombia. It describes the particular context of the participants, instructional design choices, and ICT tools used to conduct the flip. The authors walk the readers through the creation of a compare-and-contrast essay by means of flipped writing workshops and showcases the full workshop used for readers to use as a reference and adapt to their own teaching context. This chapter suggests the pre-class and in-class activities that make the flip of the writing part in a course possible. Findings presented in the research section of this chapter suggest the effectiveness of the flipped learning approach in composition writing in the EFL setting. As well as the increase in students' motivation toward the use of technology for language learning.