In the context of continuous assessment for learning in a university course French-speaking Switzerland, this article studies students’ perception when they receive multiple instances peer feedback on written academic assignment carried out small collaborative groups. How do students, who are both assessees and assessors, perceive these feedback, especially led to compare them regulate their ow...

Many ESL students need to improve writing skills to pass various language tests; thus, writing teachers need to read many compositions and provide feedback. To help ESL teachers reduce their teaching load and to give students faster feedback, various English grammar checkers have been developed. Few of these PC-based grammar checkers, however, are widely available to ESL learners. As the Intern...

This article reflects on the intricacy of providing written feedback from a mentor to mentee in Study Group Fellowship Scheme, an international education provider partnership with more than 50 universities and colleges across world. Using Aristotle’s rhetoric principle ethos, logos pathos, it argues that appropriate use open-ended questions combination situatedness being ethos-centric, logos-ce...

This study has aimed to compare the effects of two types of form-focused instruction, i.e. de-contextualized focus-on-forms instruction versus meaning-centered contextualized focus-on-form instruction, on the development of grammatical knowledge of Iranian high-school students. Two groups of male high-school first graders participated in this study.  One group was taught through de-contextualiz...