Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates
This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critical p...
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| author | Xianwei, Gao Asmawi, Adelina Samuel, Moses |
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| description | This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critical peer feedback, and issues in critical peer feedback. A qualitative case study is conducted with six Chinese undergraduates. Three kinds of data including semi-structured interviews, Business English writing assignments and artifacts of critical peer feedback, are analyzed by QSR Nvivo 8. The findings reveal that critical peer feedback is a strategy of higher-order peer feedback to improve the higher-level writing. The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is accepted for critical peer feedback. Critical peer feedback improves the quality of peer feedback and the quality of Business English writing. Qzone blog is a convenient ICT platform for critical peer feedback with many strengths. However, six issues are also perceived in the practice of critical peer feedback. The finding is significant to the process of critical peer feedback in second language writing. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-227732019-10-21T03:39:43Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/22773/ Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates Xianwei, Gao Asmawi, Adelina Samuel, Moses L Education (General) PE English This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critical peer feedback, and issues in critical peer feedback. A qualitative case study is conducted with six Chinese undergraduates. Three kinds of data including semi-structured interviews, Business English writing assignments and artifacts of critical peer feedback, are analyzed by QSR Nvivo 8. The findings reveal that critical peer feedback is a strategy of higher-order peer feedback to improve the higher-level writing. The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is accepted for critical peer feedback. Critical peer feedback improves the quality of peer feedback and the quality of Business English writing. Qzone blog is a convenient ICT platform for critical peer feedback with many strengths. However, six issues are also perceived in the practice of critical peer feedback. The finding is significant to the process of critical peer feedback in second language writing. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press 2017 Article PeerReviewed Xianwei, Gao and Asmawi, Adelina and Samuel, Moses (2017) Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 17 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 1675-8021, DOI https://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2017-1701-03 <https://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2017-1701-03>. http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/article/view/12865 doi:10.17576/gema-2017-1701-03 |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) PE English Xianwei, Gao Asmawi, Adelina Samuel, Moses Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates |
| title | Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates |
| title_full | Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates |
| title_fullStr | Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates |
| title_short | Critical Peer Feedback For Business English Writing Through Qzone Blogs: A Mechanism Among Chinese Undergraduates |
| title_sort | critical peer feedback for business english writing through qzone blogs a mechanism among chinese undergraduates |
| topic | L Education (General) PE English |
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