Developing Peer Corrective Skills in Business Letter Writing in English as a Foreign Language
Peer corrective feedback (PCF) implementation is a topical issue in writing skills development at tertiary level. Those researchers who explore the application of PCF in higher education (e.g. Liu and Sadler, 2003; Hyland, K. and Hyland, F., 2006) admit that students face difficulties in providing...
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University of Latvia Press
2019-06-01
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Peer corrective feedback (PCF) implementation is a topical issue in writing skills development at tertiary level. Those researchers who explore the application of PCF in higher education (e.g. Liu and Sadler, 2003; Hyland, K. and Hyland, F., 2006) admit that students face difficulties in providing qualitative feedback that determines the effectiveness of this teaching tool. Therefore, the goal of this paper was to investigate what actions could be taken in order to develop students’ PCF skills and, consequently, foster the quality of PCF. The primary research method was a case study in which the participants were 24 second-year undergraduates majoring in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at a university in Latvia. The materials of the case study involve the genre of a business letter, which plays a vital role in people’s professional and everyday life. The results of the research revealed that providing students with an assessment scale and teaching how to apply it increase the quality of PCF.
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| spelling | doaj.art-94eea4565526439ea06491fa70024fa72023-03-13T00:00:18ZengUniversity of Latvia PressBaltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture1691-99712501-03952019-06-019Developing Peer Corrective Skills in Business Letter Writing in English as a Foreign LanguageMonta Farneste0Olga Pašinska1University of LatviaRiga Stradiņš University Peer corrective feedback (PCF) implementation is a topical issue in writing skills development at tertiary level. Those researchers who explore the application of PCF in higher education (e.g. Liu and Sadler, 2003; Hyland, K. and Hyland, F., 2006) admit that students face difficulties in providing qualitative feedback that determines the effectiveness of this teaching tool. Therefore, the goal of this paper was to investigate what actions could be taken in order to develop students’ PCF skills and, consequently, foster the quality of PCF. The primary research method was a case study in which the participants were 24 second-year undergraduates majoring in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at a university in Latvia. The materials of the case study involve the genre of a business letter, which plays a vital role in people’s professional and everyday life. The results of the research revealed that providing students with an assessment scale and teaching how to apply it increase the quality of PCF. https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/285peer corrective feedbackfeedback qualitywriting skillsundergraduatesEFL case study |
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| title | Developing Peer Corrective Skills in Business Letter Writing in English as a Foreign Language |
| title_full | Developing Peer Corrective Skills in Business Letter Writing in English as a Foreign Language |
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| title_short | Developing Peer Corrective Skills in Business Letter Writing in English as a Foreign Language |
| title_sort | developing peer corrective skills in business letter writing in english as a foreign language |
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