This study set out to investigate the effect of peer- editing as a metacognitive strategy on the development of writing. It was hypothesized that peer-editing could be used to raise grammatical and compositional awareness of the learners. Forty pre-intermediate sophomores at Islamic Azad University-Tabriz Branch participated in the study, taking the course Writing I. To warrant the initial homo...

a number of pedagogical arguments support self- and peer-assessment in language classrooms to improve the quality of learning by students’ involvement in the final judgments of one’s work. considering editing as a method of communicative testing of writing, this study aimed at finding out whether self- and peer-editing of assignments could result in the improvement in iranian efl students’ writ...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

the objective of the present paper is to shed some light on peer feedback in efl writing courses. in recent years, with regard to teaching writing, there has been a total shift of approach, from product-orientation to process-orientation. a key component of the latter is peer assessment in which learners read each other's compositions and provide feedback to the writer, based on the teache...

Despite its popularity in other countries, like America and Canada, peer editing is considered quite ‘avant-garde’ in the Hong Kong academic community and has never been a common practice in local secondary schools’ classrooms. This paper will try to unveil the reasons why a number of Hong Kong English teachers are reluctant to use peer-editing. It is hypothesized that any positive experience o...

Goals of the Study Peer editing has been a useful tool in the traditional writing process, especially in recent years. This idea of revising the works of your peers and providing constructive criticism is wildly popular in high school classrooms as well as in entry-level college courses, and it is usually introduced at the early middle school level. The technique is applauded because of its abi...

Technical communication is extremely important for engineering education (ABET) requirements, but limited resources make it challenging to offer writing-intensive classes in a growing engineering school. Use of online technologies can help writingintensive classes to scale. We describe our experiences using a variety of Web-based functions to teach and administrate CMPE185, Technical Writing fo...

The handling of conflicts in collaborative editing over hierarchical documents in peer-to-peer networks is a very important issue. In this paper we show how the multi-level editing approach that recursively applies a tombstone transformational approach over the document levels offers support for flexible conflict definition and resolution.

Peer and self editing strategies are social metacognitive used in the steps of sharing, revising, writing. The objective study is to see how peer able improve students’ writing skill. 64 students participants were actively involved this classroom action research. worksheet, test sheet as instruments. results showed that skill improved all elements: quality format, punctuation mechanics, content...