教师反馈与同伴反馈对非英语专业大学生写作影响的研究——以湘潭大学兴湘学院为例-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

En English Abstract II II Abstract As one of the most significant ways to communicate, writing is an important tool to promote language acquisition in second language learning. Feedback, which is a significant part of writing instruction, has already become an important issue in current SLA study. In recent years, many scholars have done a lot of research about the writing feedback. However, most of the research in this field in China is based on the theories introduced from abroad, and the research conducted in the Chinese teaching context is far from enough. Based on an experiment and a questionnaire, this study examined 40 non-English majors from Xingxiang College of Xiangtan University. It aimed to solve the following three questions: (1) what are the characteristics of teacher feedback and peer feedback during the revision process? (2) What are the effects of teacher feedback and peer feedback on the quality of writing? (3) What is students’ attitude toward the two types of feedback? In the experiment, forty students were randomly divided into two groups on average: the teacher feedback group (hereafter called TFG) that received the written feedback from teachers and the peer feedback group (hereafter called PFG) that received the written feedback from a group of peer students. A comparative analysis of the scores the two groups received in their writing, together with the result of the questionnaire, resulted in the following conclusions: (1) teachers offered more usable feedback points and fewer unusable feedback points than peers. In terms of the focus of feedback, teacher feedback focused more on grammar and content but less on vocabulary. Peer feedback focuses more on grammar and vocabulary but less on organization. (2) With the process-oriented writing approach, the writing of both TFG and PFG was improved, but teacher feedback is more effective than peer feedback. In terms of the revisions students made with the help of feedback, students in TFG made mor