Peer-crtiquing as an effective strategy for teaching writing

Abstract

The problem of Secondary School students’ poor performance in EnglishLanguage has been of concern to English Educators. More worrisome, is thepoor writing ability of learners of English Language.. Effort to solve this problem directs attention of scholars and educators to pedagogy of imparting knowledge. Collaborative emerged as one of the supplements of language teaching both in first and second language situations. This paper used peer critiquing,, an aspect of collaborative learning, as a teaching strategy and examined its effect on writing skill of some secondary school student in the second language situation. One hundred second year Senior Secondary School students drawn as samples from two schools in Ikenne Local Government of Ogun State, Nigeria were the research subjects. The results show that peer-critiquing has a positive effect on teaching quality and the performance of students, thus it is recommended for teaching writing skill.