Open AccessPeer Assessment in EFL Writing Classes: Investigating Kurdish Students’ Attitudes
Author(s) -
Qismat M. Zahawi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
twejêr
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-0752
pISSN - 2617-0744
DOI - 10.31918/twejer.2141.29
Subject(s) - paragraph , peer assessment , grading (engineering) , writing assessment , vocabulary , peer feedback , psychology , mathematics education , scale (ratio) , peer evaluation , second language writing , grading scale , academic writing , pedagogy , higher education , computer science , second language , linguistics , medicine , engineering , philosophy , civil engineering , physics , surgery , quantum mechanics , world wide web , law , political science
Peer assessment refers to students assessing their peers' work and providing grades and/or feedback. This study investigates Kurdish EFL students' attitudes toward peer assessment. To this end, the peer assessment technique will be utilised in teaching academic writing to second-year students in the English Department, College of Basic Education. Participants will be trained on how to assess their peers' writing by using Jacobs et al 's (1981) writing scale as a descriptor grading model. This scale provides five subscales for evaluating a written paragraph, namely: content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. After implementing this model for 16 weeks, the students have shown positive attitudes toward implementing peer assessment in their writing classes as a practical assessment technique.