The Effectiveness of Internet-based Peer Feedback Training on Chinese EFL College Students' Writing Proficiency

Peer Feedback And Writing Error Correction

In education, feedback is widely seen as crucial for both encouraging and consolidating learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and the significance has been recognized by researchers and teachers working in the field of second language writing or foreign language writing. In fact, feedback is “input from a reader to a writer with the effect of providing information to the writer for revision.” (Kellogg, et al. 2009)Thus, peer feedback is the practice of students’ discussing and commenting each others’ written work, which has been explored to be of great benefit for EFL students who are learning to write and learning to revise (Min, 2006).