Classroom interaction plays a critical role in language teaching and learning process.It involves both the teacher-students,and students-students.This article is intended to explore the vital significance of classroom...Classroom interaction plays a critical role in language teaching and learning process.It involves both the teacher-students,and students-students.This article is intended to explore the vital significance of classroom interaction in language learning process with the emphasis placed on the students' involvement in the classroom activities,furthermore,to discover whether the peers small-sized group work is a beneficial and irreplaceable form of classroom interaction.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Classroom interaction plays a critical role in language teaching and learning process.It involves both the teacher-students,and students-students.This article is intended to explore the vital significance of classroom interaction in language learning process with the emphasis placed on the students' involvement in the classroom activities,furthermore,to discover whether the peers small-sized group work is a beneficial and irreplaceable form of classroom interaction.
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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.
