PEER ASSESSMENT EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ WRITING PERFORMANCE

The aim of this study is to investigate peer assessment effect on students’ writing performance. Writing is one of activities that should be learnt by students to achieve language ability especially in English, but the fact they often face difficulties when they write, the difficulties such as in organization, content, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics, so it is important for students to interact and collaborate with their friends or peers to solve those difficulties together, it called as peer assessment. Peer assessment is a common activity used in writing classroom and it can increase students’ writing performance,it also can be beneficial for both writer and teacher. For the teacher, it helps him saving time in checking students’ works, further for students, peer assessment can assist and gain their writing performance by stimulating the peers to discuss, reflect, and collaborate well. Peer assessment is very effective for students to be more active and productive by interacting each other. The intended interaction relates the error of poor organization, misuse of punctuation, the use of faulty grammar, inappropriate diction and capitalization, it is done in order to present the students’ improvement of writing performance.