Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2017

PEER AND SELF EDITING IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM

Suhair Al Alami

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 The EFL (English as a foreign language) world is encountering a great challenge in terms of writing pedagogy. Reflecting on EFL writing pedagogy within university contexts, the current paper exemplifies how self versus peer editing was practiced by a number of learners studying at a private university in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, throughout the winter semester of the academic year 2016–2017. Peer editing refers to the ways in which students discuss their essay with each other for productive feedback, so as to use this feedback for enhancement of writing skills. Participating in peer editing discussions, students are expected to provide constructive feedback and accept positive criticism. Self editing, by contrast, does not require any collaborative work since the student is expected to edit his/her essay without receiving any feedback from his/her class peers. As indicated by the findings of this research study, peer and self editing are not significantly different from each other. 

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Suhair Al Alami, PEER AND SELF EDITING IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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