This research is intended to figure out the influence of peer feedback activities on the writing skill development of intermediate Korean language learners. Unlike foreign languages including English etc, there are not many researches dealt with peer ...
This research is intended to figure out the influence of peer feedback activities on the writing skill development of intermediate Korean language learners. Unlike foreign languages including English etc, there are not many researches dealt with peer feedback in Korean language, and added to that, so small in scale such as dealing with only one of many different corrective feedbacks, or check whether or not the effects of feedback, and so, fragmented and specialized researches on feedback effects need to be attempted. The training for feedback provision activities through methods is the thing firstly required to develop effective correlation between learners to raise the feedback quality, but such training has been undervalued many time in the previous researches of feedback in Korean language education. Accordingly, the changes in writing skills of the intermediate Korean language learners will be measured after the full provision of repetitive feedback giving training in this research.
Meanwhile, those researches dealt with peer feedback effect negatively are pointing out in common the learners’ callowness and uncomfortable feeling as the cause for incomplete provision of feedback. The concrete causes are those that the learners don’t know how to feedback on peers’ writings, or being passive in offering feedback thinking they are ineffectual that can’t offer feedback or distrust in the feedback given from peers. To solve such problems, the contents of peer feedback training will be changed before full-scale of peer feedback activities are being carried out in this research. Firstly, the contents of education will be strengthened for the learners to be trained to offer different feedbacks step by step, and adopt the feedback giving training by group unit which differentiated from the existing education aiming only the understanding of peer feedback concept, and then figure out the influence of new style training on the peer feedback and learners writing skills.
To achieve this, set up the questions as follows: Are there any differences developed in feedback quantity and quality between the group taken feedback training by group unit and by individual unit? Second, what differences in learners’ writing skills were made according to the two different peer feedback trainings? And following are the expected results from the activities based on the above questionnaire. First, the learners for the feedback training by group unit are able to offer the feedback relatively greater in quantity, and more detailed and less errors compared with the group by individual unit. Second, the group for peer feedback training by group unit will more develop in expression accuracy, content unity and writing structure compared with the learners by individual unit. The both two groups are expected to develop in their writing skills through feedback training, but the group by group unit which carried out feedback activities with the negotiation of meaning included would achieve the writing skills relatively less in error compared with the group by individual unit.