Peer feedback is a widely utilized practice in writing classrooms for second languages(L2)that has drawn a lot of attention.While some support the practice because of the clear advantages that peer feedback offers stu...Peer feedback is a widely utilized practice in writing classrooms for second languages(L2)that has drawn a lot of attention.While some support the practice because of the clear advantages that peer feedback offers students,others doubt its efficacy.Comparing various forms of feedback is therefore necessary,as is determining the effects that peer feedback has on students and the variables that might affect how successful peer feedback is.This paper focuses on the usefulness of peer feedback for L2 writing,based on a review of studies on the subject.The findings imply that the functions of peer and teacher feedback are distinct,and that peer feedback is advantageous to both parties,particularly to the supplier.The attitudes and cultural backgrounds of the students are among the other factors that affect how effective peer feedback is.Lastly,some implications for future research and education are presented.展开更多
Recent years have witnessed the rise and popularity of blended teaching for EFL students,yet the lack of face-to-face communication and insufficient interaction lead researchers and educators to explore methods of imp...Recent years have witnessed the rise and popularity of blended teaching for EFL students,yet the lack of face-to-face communication and insufficient interaction lead researchers and educators to explore methods of improving the effectiveness of teaching.Peer feedback,a teaching strategy used to raise the bars by exposing instructions to a new teaching perspective to enhance students’online and offline collaboration,has received the lion’s share of attention in recent studies.On the basis of literature review,class records,and interviews,this paper,in hope of supporting advances in teachers’practice and field researches,examines the possible approaches to effectively implementing the application of peer feedback in blended teaching mode with a special focus on teachers’roles.展开更多
Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, ...Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.展开更多
Based on the students' capability of assessing peers' essays, this paper attempts to analyze the effectiveness of peer feed-back in EFL writing. Significant improvements can be made in writing proficiency, esp...Based on the students' capability of assessing peers' essays, this paper attempts to analyze the effectiveness of peer feed-back in EFL writing. Significant improvements can be made in writing proficiency, especially for the students who review others' essays. The reviewers may not only improve their peer's papers but also improve general writing skills and learn to self-evaluatetheir own writing.展开更多
The overarching aim of this study is to find out the effects of peer feedback on Turkish EFL learners at pre-intermediate level. More specifically, the researcher sought to probe the strategies most suitable to these...The overarching aim of this study is to find out the effects of peer feedback on Turkish EFL learners at pre-intermediate level. More specifically, the researcher sought to probe the strategies most suitable to these students by motivating them to scrutinize each other’s writings and develop their own perceptions of the advantages of becoming more critical of their writing. By addressing these aims and objectives, the researcher hoped to discover the advantages and effects of peer feedback in improving the writing skills of these students. A mixture of both quantitative and qualitative methods was considered appropriate to meet the needs of research. A questionnaire on attitudes and writing tests were used to collect primary data for the study in order to gain information about the needs of the students and the suitable strategies required for peer reading, examining, and giving feedback. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted to examine the students’ perceptions of peer feedback. Results of this study revealed that the peer feedback process helped learners in improving their writing performance as a result of which the students had a positive attitude towards using peer feedback in EFL classrooms. Based on the findings, implications for foreign language （FL） writing classes and suggestions for future studies are presented.展开更多
With the increasing number of college students enrollment,non-English major students have paid much attention to error correction and peer feedback on writing.This article sheds some light on the benefits and implicat...With the increasing number of college students enrollment,non-English major students have paid much attention to error correction and peer feedback on writing.This article sheds some light on the benefits and implication of peer feedback on college English teaching.展开更多
7 studies on the effectiveness of peer and teacher feedback have been critically reviewed in this paper,some problems being perceived either in the research design or their research findings.Based on the detected prob...7 studies on the effectiveness of peer and teacher feedback have been critically reviewed in this paper,some problems being perceived either in the research design or their research findings.Based on the detected problems,I put forward some suggestions for the future study and then draw some pedagogical implications.展开更多
The paper mainly focuses on peer feedback--one specific approach to teach writing. After analyzing the current practice in English writing instruction in Chinese tertiary institutions and reviewing YANG, Badger and YU...The paper mainly focuses on peer feedback--one specific approach to teach writing. After analyzing the current practice in English writing instruction in Chinese tertiary institutions and reviewing YANG, Badger and YU＇s （2006） empirical research study, the author evaluates the suitability of peer feedback approach in a Chinese college context. Hopes that it may offer and challenges which might be faced, are discussed as well.展开更多
Writing, as one of the four major language skills, has been playing the same important role in China＇s ESL （English as a second language） classroom as the other three ones. Peer feedback is viewed as one of the eff...Writing, as one of the four major language skills, has been playing the same important role in China＇s ESL （English as a second language） classroom as the other three ones. Peer feedback is viewed as one of the effective ways experimented in foreign language writing classroom. Literature shows that different researchers do it in different ways in their contexts. In Chinese college SLW classroom, the peer feedback activities can be tried by following ＂pre-peer feedback＂, ＂while-peer feedback＂ and ＂post-peer feedback＂. The ＂pre-peer feedback＂ is the core that can assume the later steps and the activity quality.展开更多
The project delves into the preliminary findings of a survey of both trainers and students on the practice of using student peer feedback in interpreting practice.It first explains the theoretical foundation which jus...The project delves into the preliminary findings of a survey of both trainers and students on the practice of using student peer feedback in interpreting practice.It first explains the theoretical foundation which justifies the use of peer feedback in interpreting practice,the research methodology and data collection.Then it brings forth specific findings concerning the implementation of peer feedback in the interpreting class followed by discussions of the role and features of student peer feedback as a means to help students ready for the booth.Analysis of the results shows that peer feedback in interpreting practice keeps students on-task,attentive and help them spot their own problems.Trainers and students themselves point to similar features of student peer feedback as focusing on comprehension of the original,word choice and numbers.The preliminary findings of the survey demonstrate the roles and features of student peer feedback in interpreting practice and point to the possible way of enhancing student’s learning curve through more effective peer feedback.展开更多
This paper demonstrates students’perspective of peer feedback on writing.The researcher based on the relevant litera⁃ture to find that peer feedback has a great effect on learning engagement,evaluation skill,and peer...This paper demonstrates students’perspective of peer feedback on writing.The researcher based on the relevant litera⁃ture to find that peer feedback has a great effect on learning engagement,evaluation skill,and peer interaction.However,there are still some doubts from teacher and student.Therefore,the researcher further reexamines this issue by conducting a pre-test,posttest with 36 students in Hong Kong,supplemented by interview data.The research findings suggest that numerous students notice the effectiveness of peer feedback whereas they are not familiar with the assessment process and technique.In this paper,the re⁃searcher will explore secondary students’perspective of peer feedback,and evaluate to what extent peer feedback can enhance their writing.Besides,there are some strategies for how to carry out peer feedback in writing class.展开更多
Increasing studies are focusing on the efficacy of applying technology in the second language writing course.This paper intends to review studies exploring impacts on learners'motivation by using technology-facili...Increasing studies are focusing on the efficacy of applying technology in the second language writing course.This paper intends to review studies exploring impacts on learners'motivation by using technology-facilitated peer feedback.展开更多
This pilot research is to explore the efficacy of peer feedback in translation teaching and learning in the context where College English Test has great influence on university’s language teaching and learning throug...This pilot research is to explore the efficacy of peer feedback in translation teaching and learning in the context where College English Test has great influence on university’s language teaching and learning through a case study.It will shed some light on pedagogical thinking in the context of Chinese ESL teaching and learning.展开更多
Among the many possible ways to assessing writing by giving feedbacks, the peer evaluation method is viewed as a relatively effective one for students. Traditional one-way teacher feedback with which the teachers usua...Among the many possible ways to assessing writing by giving feedbacks, the peer evaluation method is viewed as a relatively effective one for students. Traditional one-way teacher feedback with which the teachers usually make great efforts to mark out all errors had been proved to be unscientific. In this article, based on the specific situation in two English major classes in Wenhua Institute attached to HUST, a series of training and experiments were designed with the aim of proving the effect of peer evaluation in writing class. It is emphasized that language teachers should recognize the practical value of peer evaluation, and try to help students be involved in making peer responses in the writing process actively, so that students can get meaningful experience from evaluating their peers＇ writing, which, in turn, will enhance their own ability to produce more satisfactory essays.展开更多
In L2 writing instruction, providing feedback can be an unnecessary part. In traditional way, feedback is normally written from teachers or tutors, but now there are more feedback forms such as teacher-student confere...In L2 writing instruction, providing feedback can be an unnecessary part. In traditional way, feedback is normally written from teachers or tutors, but now there are more feedback forms such as teacher-student conferencing and peer feedback. In China, peer feedback is not used comprehensively, as a consequence, this paper will based on the Chinese context and then analyse the advantages and disadvantages of peer feedback and when using peer feedback, how to make it effectively in Chinese college.展开更多
Feedback occupies an essential position in the ESL context. The purpose of this paper is to compare the advantages and disadvantages of teacher and peer comment and also review studies related to ESL learners' att...Feedback occupies an essential position in the ESL context. The purpose of this paper is to compare the advantages and disadvantages of teacher and peer comment and also review studies related to ESL learners' attitudes towards teacher and peer feedback. Many studies have revealed that teacher feedback has played an important role in L2 writing process. However, with the continuing research of L2 language writing pedagogy, it is argued that peer review could be a complementary teaching technique aiming to assist learners' higher thinking process and follow-up editing.展开更多
While studies in peer feedback in second language writing have covered a wide scope of areas,there is a paucity of research looking at individual peer reviewers and their specific views about peer feedback.Low-level s...While studies in peer feedback in second language writing have covered a wide scope of areas,there is a paucity of research looking at individual peer reviewers and their specific views about peer feedback.Low-level students,in particular,have always been a group of students that receive a modicum of attention in peer feedback research.This study looks at how four lowlevel students participated in peer feedback sessions and explores the reasons of different kinds of student participations.Data collection methods are composed of classroom observation,analysis of students’writing assignments,and student interviews.The findings of this study indicate that among the four participants there are four kinds of participations in peer feedback sessions,and the possible reasons include individual personalities,past traumatic experiences,low language proficiency,and poor sense of self-awareness.It is suggested that peer feedback in second language writing is a complicated issue whereby students’views,cognitive and affective needs should be taken into consideration,and writing teachers need to reconsider and redesign peer feedback sessions in second language writing classrooms according to specific teaching contexts.展开更多
Peer feedback is found to positively influence student learning and achievement. Despite concerns from learners and teachers, it is increasingly being used successfully in ESL and EFL writing classrooms. To help teach...Peer feedback is found to positively influence student learning and achievement. Despite concerns from learners and teachers, it is increasingly being used successfully in ESL and EFL writing classrooms. To help teachers and researchers understand the application of peer feedback, this paper presents a new theory based on the learning sciences for why all students, even beginning EFL students, can meaningfully participate in peer feedback. It highlights the importance of feedback that is carefully structured for maximal impact. Further, it introduces the idea of the Persuasive Zone of Competence: Students are generally sufficiently competent to address performance problems among their peers, and multi-peer feedback tends to be especially persuasive. We conclude with suggestions for how to maximize the learning potentials in peer feedback in EFL/ESL writing classrooms.展开更多
Peer feedback is a key to the quality of group work in foreign language classrooms. In order to better understand the use of peer feedback in spoken English, a ten-week study was conducted by combining peer feedback w...Peer feedback is a key to the quality of group work in foreign language classrooms. In order to better understand the use of peer feedback in spoken English, a ten-week study was conducted by combining peer feedback with group work. Based on Scaffolding Instruction of Constructivism, this study chose three different tools - a checklist, a qualitative feedback sheet and a grading sheet, to guide peer feedback. A questionnaire survey and three interviews were adopted to investigate the students＇ views and attitude toward guided peer feedback. We found： （1） Guided peer feedback plays a positive role in improving the quality of group work and its three forms were positively received by the participants; （2） Among the three tools - the checklist, the qualitative feedback sheet and the grading sheet, the grading sheet was most welcomed; （3） Only by designing the appropriate peer feedback forms and the tasks at the same time, could peer feedback achieve good results.展开更多
文摘Peer feedback is a widely utilized practice in writing classrooms for second languages(L2)that has drawn a lot of attention.While some support the practice because of the clear advantages that peer feedback offers students,others doubt its efficacy.Comparing various forms of feedback is therefore necessary,as is determining the effects that peer feedback has on students and the variables that might affect how successful peer feedback is.This paper focuses on the usefulness of peer feedback for L2 writing,based on a review of studies on the subject.The findings imply that the functions of peer and teacher feedback are distinct,and that peer feedback is advantageous to both parties,particularly to the supplier.The attitudes and cultural backgrounds of the students are among the other factors that affect how effective peer feedback is.Lastly,some implications for future research and education are presented.
文摘Recent years have witnessed the rise and popularity of blended teaching for EFL students,yet the lack of face-to-face communication and insufficient interaction lead researchers and educators to explore methods of improving the effectiveness of teaching.Peer feedback,a teaching strategy used to raise the bars by exposing instructions to a new teaching perspective to enhance students’online and offline collaboration,has received the lion’s share of attention in recent studies.On the basis of literature review,class records,and interviews,this paper,in hope of supporting advances in teachers’practice and field researches,examines the possible approaches to effectively implementing the application of peer feedback in blended teaching mode with a special focus on teachers’roles.
文摘Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.
文摘Based on the students' capability of assessing peers' essays, this paper attempts to analyze the effectiveness of peer feed-back in EFL writing. Significant improvements can be made in writing proficiency, especially for the students who review others' essays. The reviewers may not only improve their peer's papers but also improve general writing skills and learn to self-evaluatetheir own writing.
文摘The overarching aim of this study is to find out the effects of peer feedback on Turkish EFL learners at pre-intermediate level. More specifically, the researcher sought to probe the strategies most suitable to these students by motivating them to scrutinize each other’s writings and develop their own perceptions of the advantages of becoming more critical of their writing. By addressing these aims and objectives, the researcher hoped to discover the advantages and effects of peer feedback in improving the writing skills of these students. A mixture of both quantitative and qualitative methods was considered appropriate to meet the needs of research. A questionnaire on attitudes and writing tests were used to collect primary data for the study in order to gain information about the needs of the students and the suitable strategies required for peer reading, examining, and giving feedback. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted to examine the students’ perceptions of peer feedback. Results of this study revealed that the peer feedback process helped learners in improving their writing performance as a result of which the students had a positive attitude towards using peer feedback in EFL classrooms. Based on the findings, implications for foreign language （FL） writing classes and suggestions for future studies are presented.
文摘With the increasing number of college students enrollment,non-English major students have paid much attention to error correction and peer feedback on writing.This article sheds some light on the benefits and implication of peer feedback on college English teaching.
文摘7 studies on the effectiveness of peer and teacher feedback have been critically reviewed in this paper,some problems being perceived either in the research design or their research findings.Based on the detected problems,I put forward some suggestions for the future study and then draw some pedagogical implications.
文摘The paper mainly focuses on peer feedback--one specific approach to teach writing. After analyzing the current practice in English writing instruction in Chinese tertiary institutions and reviewing YANG, Badger and YU＇s （2006） empirical research study, the author evaluates the suitability of peer feedback approach in a Chinese college context. Hopes that it may offer and challenges which might be faced, are discussed as well.
文摘Writing, as one of the four major language skills, has been playing the same important role in China＇s ESL （English as a second language） classroom as the other three ones. Peer feedback is viewed as one of the effective ways experimented in foreign language writing classroom. Literature shows that different researchers do it in different ways in their contexts. In Chinese college SLW classroom, the peer feedback activities can be tried by following ＂pre-peer feedback＂, ＂while-peer feedback＂ and ＂post-peer feedback＂. The ＂pre-peer feedback＂ is the core that can assume the later steps and the activity quality.
文摘The project delves into the preliminary findings of a survey of both trainers and students on the practice of using student peer feedback in interpreting practice.It first explains the theoretical foundation which justifies the use of peer feedback in interpreting practice,the research methodology and data collection.Then it brings forth specific findings concerning the implementation of peer feedback in the interpreting class followed by discussions of the role and features of student peer feedback as a means to help students ready for the booth.Analysis of the results shows that peer feedback in interpreting practice keeps students on-task,attentive and help them spot their own problems.Trainers and students themselves point to similar features of student peer feedback as focusing on comprehension of the original,word choice and numbers.The preliminary findings of the survey demonstrate the roles and features of student peer feedback in interpreting practice and point to the possible way of enhancing student’s learning curve through more effective peer feedback.
文摘This paper demonstrates students’perspective of peer feedback on writing.The researcher based on the relevant litera⁃ture to find that peer feedback has a great effect on learning engagement,evaluation skill,and peer interaction.However,there are still some doubts from teacher and student.Therefore,the researcher further reexamines this issue by conducting a pre-test,posttest with 36 students in Hong Kong,supplemented by interview data.The research findings suggest that numerous students notice the effectiveness of peer feedback whereas they are not familiar with the assessment process and technique.In this paper,the re⁃searcher will explore secondary students’perspective of peer feedback,and evaluate to what extent peer feedback can enhance their writing.Besides,there are some strategies for how to carry out peer feedback in writing class.
文摘Increasing studies are focusing on the efficacy of applying technology in the second language writing course.This paper intends to review studies exploring impacts on learners'motivation by using technology-facilitated peer feedback.
文摘This pilot research is to explore the efficacy of peer feedback in translation teaching and learning in the context where College English Test has great influence on university’s language teaching and learning through a case study.It will shed some light on pedagogical thinking in the context of Chinese ESL teaching and learning.
文摘Among the many possible ways to assessing writing by giving feedbacks, the peer evaluation method is viewed as a relatively effective one for students. Traditional one-way teacher feedback with which the teachers usually make great efforts to mark out all errors had been proved to be unscientific. In this article, based on the specific situation in two English major classes in Wenhua Institute attached to HUST, a series of training and experiments were designed with the aim of proving the effect of peer evaluation in writing class. It is emphasized that language teachers should recognize the practical value of peer evaluation, and try to help students be involved in making peer responses in the writing process actively, so that students can get meaningful experience from evaluating their peers＇ writing, which, in turn, will enhance their own ability to produce more satisfactory essays.
文摘In L2 writing instruction, providing feedback can be an unnecessary part. In traditional way, feedback is normally written from teachers or tutors, but now there are more feedback forms such as teacher-student conferencing and peer feedback. In China, peer feedback is not used comprehensively, as a consequence, this paper will based on the Chinese context and then analyse the advantages and disadvantages of peer feedback and when using peer feedback, how to make it effectively in Chinese college.
文摘Feedback occupies an essential position in the ESL context. The purpose of this paper is to compare the advantages and disadvantages of teacher and peer comment and also review studies related to ESL learners' attitudes towards teacher and peer feedback. Many studies have revealed that teacher feedback has played an important role in L2 writing process. However, with the continuing research of L2 language writing pedagogy, it is argued that peer review could be a complementary teaching technique aiming to assist learners' higher thinking process and follow-up editing.
文摘While studies in peer feedback in second language writing have covered a wide scope of areas,there is a paucity of research looking at individual peer reviewers and their specific views about peer feedback.Low-level students,in particular,have always been a group of students that receive a modicum of attention in peer feedback research.This study looks at how four lowlevel students participated in peer feedback sessions and explores the reasons of different kinds of student participations.Data collection methods are composed of classroom observation,analysis of students’writing assignments,and student interviews.The findings of this study indicate that among the four participants there are four kinds of participations in peer feedback sessions,and the possible reasons include individual personalities,past traumatic experiences,low language proficiency,and poor sense of self-awareness.It is suggested that peer feedback in second language writing is a complicated issue whereby students’views,cognitive and affective needs should be taken into consideration,and writing teachers need to reconsider and redesign peer feedback sessions in second language writing classrooms according to specific teaching contexts.
文摘Peer feedback is found to positively influence student learning and achievement. Despite concerns from learners and teachers, it is increasingly being used successfully in ESL and EFL writing classrooms. To help teachers and researchers understand the application of peer feedback, this paper presents a new theory based on the learning sciences for why all students, even beginning EFL students, can meaningfully participate in peer feedback. It highlights the importance of feedback that is carefully structured for maximal impact. Further, it introduces the idea of the Persuasive Zone of Competence: Students are generally sufficiently competent to address performance problems among their peers, and multi-peer feedback tends to be especially persuasive. We conclude with suggestions for how to maximize the learning potentials in peer feedback in EFL/ESL writing classrooms.
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文摘Peer feedback is a key to the quality of group work in foreign language classrooms. In order to better understand the use of peer feedback in spoken English, a ten-week study was conducted by combining peer feedback with group work. Based on Scaffolding Instruction of Constructivism, this study chose three different tools - a checklist, a qualitative feedback sheet and a grading sheet, to guide peer feedback. A questionnaire survey and three interviews were adopted to investigate the students＇ views and attitude toward guided peer feedback. We found： （1） Guided peer feedback plays a positive role in improving the quality of group work and its three forms were positively received by the participants; （2） Among the three tools - the checklist, the qualitative feedback sheet and the grading sheet, the grading sheet was most welcomed; （3） Only by designing the appropriate peer feedback forms and the tasks at the same time, could peer feedback achieve good results.
