Using Project-based Inquired Quality Talk to Enhance the Effectiveness of Flipped Classes

Abstract

In our previous work, we presented an inquiry-based quality talk method in flipped classes to provide students in their group discussions with an inquiry-based series of steps to discover the problem solutions where quality talk-specific types of questions/ responses are executed in each step. In general, the inquiry-based steps that this method employs are those in the problem-based mode of inquiry learning. In this paper, we explore the use of the other project-based mode of inquiry learning to present a new project-based inquired quality talk method that supports as well students' learning effects in flipped classes. For illustration, the new method is applied to an academic ‘Reading & Writing’ class where a quasi-experimental study on the comparative analysis of experimental and controlled groups is conduced to verify its validity.