พีรียา ทักษานันท์. Effects of Peer Correction on Students' Writing. Master's Degree(Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching). มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าธนบุรี. สำนักหอสมุด.. : King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 2007.
Abstract:
This classroom-based research study was conducted in order to investigate and
determine the effects of peer correction on students' writing focusing on peer feedback.
Participants in this study were four undergraduate students at King Mongkut's
University of Technology Thonburi studying Computer Engineering. All of them were
enrolling in LNG 104 course, Content Based Language Learning 1. The instruments
used for data collection were the written tasks, semi-structured interviews, audio
recordings of the feedback sessions, and comments of the inter-rater and researcher on
the written tasks.
The subjects received feedback guidelines and were trained to give feedback. Then, the
researcher assigned them to compose two opinion essays and asked them to act as a
commentator in order to give feedback on their peers' essay, focusing on content,
organization, and communication. After receiving the feedback, the subjects could
decide to take the feedback to change or not change their drafts. Then, the changes of
the drafts were analyzed. In addition, the feedback types given on their peer works were
studied.
The findings in the study reveal that peer feedback is effective in helping the subjects to
change their drafts to some extent. The results of this study show that there are five
primary types of feedback given on the subjects' work; a corrective feedback, an
evaluating feedback, an analyzing feedback, a questioning and probing feedback, and a
suggesting feedback. Regarding a corrective feedback given on the written tasks, it also
covered local mistakes, syntax, and style of the writing which are not involved in the
feedback guideline given. In addition, peer feedback helps the subjects to raise their
awareness of creating a good piece of paper and language use. The findings also show
that factors affect peer feedbacks are meaningful task, feedback guideline, resources,
students' language proficiency, and cultural influences. Moreover, the findings show
that the subjects had positive attitudes towards peer feedback.
The implications of this study suggest how peer feedback should be implemented
including how to train the students to give feedback.