The effects of providing peer feedback on learners' genre awareness in English as a foreign language business letter writing.

ABSTRACT: Despite the important role of the genre awareness in facilitating the effective communication in the global business context and the need to teach and practice writing for various social purposes, there was scant classroom-based research on effects of providing peer feedback on EFL learners' genre awareness in business writing for fulfilling the particular communicative purpose. This study examined whether student reviewers could improve their genre awareness in business letter writing by providing peer feedback to other students' writings at varying levels. Sixty business English majors, taking the business writing course for 1 year under the tutelage of the same instructor, participated in the current study. They were randomly assigned to the experimental group who reviewed the students'

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9751833 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature