Abstract
AbstractThe need for supporting the practice of teaching English as Foreign Language (EFL) writing at tertiary level has been the major concern for researchers and practitioners. Peer feedback has received much attention since its effectiveness in enhancing students’ writing ability. However, English teachers have often encountered time constraints and large class during the writing process. Currently, Facebook becomes one of the most popular social network site (SNS) in Indonesia and has been a very potential platform to help English teachers to facilitate learning. This paper attempts to confirm whether the use of Facebook as a medium of peer feedback outside the classroom can improve EFL Students’ Writing ability. The subjects were 81 undergraduate students studying Essay Writing which is a compulsory subject in English Department in Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. The subjects then were randomly assigned into experimental group and control group. The experiment lasted for eight weeks started with pre-test in the beginning and ended with a post-test in the last meeting. During the treatment, the teacher applied planning, drafting, revising and editing stages and online learning with Facebook as the medium to facilitate the students’ peer feedback. The result shows online peer feedback with Facebook may be used as an effective instructional media. It could help students improve their writing ability as well as critical thinking.
 Keywords: Facebook, Writing Ability, Tertiary Level, Online Peer Feedback
Highlights
Writing becomes a very important skill for English as Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduate students in Indonesia since the success of the students highly depend on their ability to accomplish various assignments in written form
The English teachers have feedback process is nowadays often done in often encountered large class in which some online environment since face-to-face peer of the students are not engaged in the feedback is considered time-consuming learning process (Al-Badwawi, 2011: 168) (See Choi, 2014)
RESULTS & DISCUSSION The present study aims at confirming whether online peer feedback with Facebook impact positively on the EFL students’ writing ability
Summary
Writing becomes a very important skill for EFL undergraduate students in Indonesia since the success of the students highly depend on their ability to accomplish various assignments in written form. The present study attempted to investigate the impact of online peer feedback on the EFL students writing ability. H1 = There is a significant difference of learning with Facebook as the medium to writing ability between experimental facilitate the students’ peer feedback group and control group. RESULTS & DISCUSSION The present study aims at confirming whether online peer feedback with Facebook impact positively on the EFL students’ writing ability. The impact of online peer feedback can be seen in the difference of writing ability between the experimental and control group. It can be seen that were tested to investigate whether there is the mean score of experimental group is any significant difference of writing ability.
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