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Answer Sheet 1-10
Answer Sheet 1-10
Answer Sheet 1-10
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Answer sheet
Instructions:
a. Read the following text before you answer the questions.
b. Type the answer after each question.
c. Don’t forget to write down your full name and student number on the answer
sheet.
d. Remember that this is individual work and therefore your honesty is greatly
appreciated.
QUESTIONS:
1. What is the topic of the paper? (3 points)
Answer: The topic is about investigating teacher-supported peer assessment
for EFL writing
2. Mention three keywords of the paper. (3 points)
Answer: Peer assessment, teacher support, EFL writing.
3. What is the purpose of the study? (3 points)
Answer: The aim of the study is to implement peer assessment for EFL writing
in China, by addressing learners’ concerns through tailor-made teacher
intervention strategies.
4. How many types of survey were conducted in this sudy and what are they?
(4 points)
Answer: There are 2 types of survey, Pre-intervention surveys and Post-task
surveys.
5. According to Nelson and Murphy (1993), two reasons explain why ESL
learners mistrust peer responses to their writing and might not incorporate
them while revising drafts. What are they? (4 points)
Answer: Because English is not their peers’ first language, and they view the
teacher as ‘the one who knows'.
6. a. Who were the participants of the study? (2 points)
Answer: The study was carried out in an EFL writing class at a university in
China, consisting of 18 second-year English majors (ten females and eight
males) over four months. Eighteen English majors participated in peer
assessment for nine writing tasks.
11. Read examples 4 – 7. Why are some of them called ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’
feedback? (8 points)
12. What are the four teacher support strategies for peer assessment? (12 points)
13. How many assignments were collected during the course of the study? (2
points)
14. Based on whether or not the peer feedback was accommodated by the student
writers during the revision, the use of peer feedback can be categorized into
three. What are they? Explain what each of them means (9 points)
16. Some students said that peer reviewers understood their writing better than
the teacher. Why is that so? (5 points)
17. Did all participant writers integrate all the peer feedback points into their
revisions? Explain! (4 points)
18. The author said that teacher disagreement with peer feedback could
discourage its use. Why? (5 points)
19. What is the result of the study reported in the paper? (3 points)