Teachers’ Belief of Peer Feedback in Academic Writing Class

Abstract

In the context of Academic Writing as a course, the need for peer feedback is important since the students need the feedback not only from teacher. According teachers, problem may arise when peer feedback has been applied in Academic writing class is the implementation is sometimes difficult to do for students. One crucial issue related to this is the teachers’ beliefs towards peer feedback for the course, which this study attempts to find out about the way teachers think about peer feedback in Academic Writing course. The instrument used was a semi-structured interview with eight participants writing teachers. Throughout the study the researcher obtained three findings and those were (i) participants viewed peer feedback as a way to motivate students, (ii) peer feedback implementation is difficult to do, and (iii) the advantages after peer feedback applied is greater than disadvantages.