An Application of Inquiry-Based Quality Talk to the Flipped Design and Teaching of “Reading & Writing” Courses

Abstract

In recent years, called from the Ministry of Education, “reading and writing” has become a core course in the general education sectors of universities. Its characteristics are mainly to cultivate studentsʼ abilities about emphasis analysis, reason narrative, and scenario design. Further, flipped learning is commonly used for the teaching of its classes. This paper presents how to integrate an innovative inquiry-based quality talk in flipped learning and then proposes, in such a new integrated flipped learning model, a “reading and writing” class design method for enhancing studentsʼ learning effects on their “reading and writing” abilities. Then, this method is applied to the ʻfood literatureʼ unit in a “reading and writing” course at a domestic university to design its learning contents and inquiry-based quality talk activities. For verification, a quasi-experimental study on the comparative analysis and its associated questionnaires have been conducted to validate the effects and studentsʼ satisfaction of applying the new model to “reading and writing” classes.

Keywords

• flipped learning
• inquiry-based quality talk
• “reading and writing” course
• class design
• practical teaching