A Brief Study on Peer Feedback in College English Writing Teaching

Abstract

One of the aims about EFL Teaching is to enhance students’ abilities of independent learning. In order to achieve the goal, many educational researchers have proposed to apply peer feedback to improve students’ independent writing ability. Peer feedback, which sources in the mother tongue writing teaching, obtains the universal application in second language writing teaching. To be specific, peer feedback is one of the methods of process writing. It is used frequently in writing teaching. It is one way to check the students’ compositions, namely students read and revise their partners’ compositions. It can improve students’ independent learning ability and their writing quality. The thesis first introduces the definition of peer feedback, relevant researches, features and current situation of writing teaching, and then elaborates how to use peer feedback in junior English writing teaching. Finally it applies the case study to draw the evaluation of peer feedback.