Peer Feedback in an Online Dissertation Writing Workshop

The Effect of Online Peer Feedback on the Academic Writing Ability of Iranian EFL Learners

This paper reports an exploratory study of 60 English as a foreign language (EFL) student’s experiences of online peer feedback in an essay writing course at Islamic Azad University, Dezful Branch. They were required to comment on their peers’ writing essays using the checklist to whom had been made available, but in different ways. The groups were required to self-assess their own writing piec...

teaching academic writing in iranian efl classrooms: teacher-initiated comments or peer-provided feedback?

this research study aimed at investigating whether using peer-provided feedbacks rather than teacher-provided comments would result in any significance difference in iranian english undergraduate students’ ability in writing. in so doing, based on a pretest (an opt & a writing exam), 40 subjects were assigned to two homogeneous groups of equal number the subjects in the control group received m...

Effects of Online Peer Response on EFL College Writing

An A to Z of peer-to-peer writing

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Using Peer Feedback in Online Discussions to Improve Critical Thinking

This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer feedback strategy in asynchronous online discussions. Specifically, this exploratory study examined the impact of peer feedback in online discussions on students' perceived and actual critical thinking skills in terms of receiving and providing peer feedback Participant interviews and pre and post surveys targeting critical thinking skil...