ピアレビューにおける学習者の作文能力が与える効果 : 読み手の立場からの分析と書き手の立場からの分析

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Peer review is a useful technique even for EFL learners to improve their writing skills (Liu & Hansen, 2002). This study investigated eighteen Japanese university students to find the effects of peer review from the perspectives of writers and reviewers. From the former perspective, the results showed that proficient writers incorporated more comments into their essays. In addition, writers with good organization, style and overall writing skill chose comments that they need to improve their essays. However, from the perspective of the reviewers, due to their habitual tendency to focus on form, writing ability had no positive effect on the way they choose the comments when they gave comments to their peers. That is possibly because form-oriented L2 instruction could have an influence on students, resulting in a focus on grammar even in peer review. Therefore the research implied that in these kinds of EFL settings, intensive peer review training and proper guidance are essential to change their focus on various aspects of writing.