Peer Feedback in an English Listening and Speaking Class Presenter: Pei-Lun Allen Lee Instructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa Hsu Date: June 8, 2011 1
Dec 10, 2014
Peer Feedback in an English Listening and Speaking Class
Presenter: Pei-Lun Allen LeeInstructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa HsuDate: June 8, 2011
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Content
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
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Introduction
Background
Motivation
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Background
(Oxford, 1997)4
communicative standards
the interaction
collaborative learning
Cooperative learning
Background
Cooperative learning provides a non-threatening learning context for interaction between students. During cooperative learning, students are exposed to other perspectives and alternatives, they share and exchange ideas, criticize and provide feedback.
(Tang, 1998)
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Motivation
Individual and group accountability is that students can teach what they learn from someone else. The smaller group, the greater individual accountability may have.
(Johnson & Johnson, 1993)
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Motivation
Feedback can be described as information provided to an individual to increase performance.
(Kluger & Denisi, 1996)
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Literature Review
Cooperative Learning
The Feedback of Teacher Feedback and Peer Feedback
The feedback in Oral Course
Purpose of the Study
Research Questions
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Cooperative Learning
individual accountability
face-to-face interaction
interpersonal and small group skill
group processing
positive interdependence
(Jensen, Johnson, & Johnson, 2002; Kaufman, Sutow, & Dunn, 1997; McCafferty, Jacobs, & Iddings, 2006) 9
Cooperative Learning
• Cooperative learning have four characteristics,
(Oxford,1997) 10
1. It can decrease the students’ anxiety and prejudice.
2. It can increase students’ intrinsic motivation.
3. It can create concern an altruistic relationship between students.
4. It can guide students’ own self-regulation.
Feedback and Peer feedback
Feedback can have a strong positive effect on learning under certain conditions.
(Bangert-Drowns et al., 1991; Kluger & DeNisi, 1996)
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Feedback and Peer feedback
Feedback as all post-response information that is provided to a learner to inform the student on his or her actual state of learning or performance and different between external and internal sources of feedback.
(Narciss, 2008)
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Feedback and Peer feedback
Peer feedback can be beneficial for learning, which might even be due to the difference from teacher feedback.
(Topping, 1998)
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Peer Feedback and Teacher Feedback
Peer feedback and teacher feedback can complement each other, with students at times being more adept at responding to a student’s work as truly being in progress than the teachers.
(Caulk, 1994; Devenney, 1989)
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The Feedback in Oral Course
The goal of feedback is to give presenters information about their performance and about future actions to take in order to improve their oral presentation skills.
(Nicol & Milligan, 2006)
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Purpose of the study
to explore the effect of peer feedback on college students’ oral performance
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Purpose of the study
to investigate the perspectives of students on peer feedback
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Research Questions
1. Is there any change between students’ first and second presentation?
2. Is there any difference of the scores between peer feedback and teacher feedback?
3. What is the student’s perceptions on peer feedback?
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Methodology
Participants
Instruments
Procedure
Data analysis
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Participants
Approximately 120
sophomores
Department of Applied Foreign
Languages
Listening and Speaking course
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Instruments
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Experimental design
• Listening and speaking course
• Two presentations in one semester
English evaluation form• Introduction• Content• Voice Quality• Body Language• Eye Contact &
Dealing with Visual Aids
• Conclusion
Questionnaires
• Four-point Likert scale
• Teacher Evaluation• Peer Evaluation• E-learning
Evaluation• Open ended
questions
English Evaluation FormGRADED ITEMS MARKS
Introduction
- Being with effective attention-getter 1 2 3 4 5
Content
- Main points clear, use appropriate 1 2 3 4 5
Voice Quality
- Pronunciation / Enunciation 1 2 3 4 5
Body Language
- Gestures 1 2 3 4 5
Eye Content & Dealing with Visual Aids
- Maintain eye contact with audience 1 2 3 4 5
Conclusion
- Signal speech ending 1 2 3 4 5
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Questionnaires1 2 3 4
Teacher Evaluation
I think teacher review can help improve my oral skills. □ □ □ □
Peers Evaluation
I think peer comments are useful. □ □ □ □
E-learning Evaluation
E-learning assessment helped me perceive the process and growth of my English oral skills. □ □ □ □
Open ended questions
Please list any suggestions for teacher evaluation, self evaluation, peer evaluation and e-learning evaluation
23(From Taiwanese students’ perceptions on peer review activity, by Chaung, 2005)
Procedure
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Pre-test (the first presentation)
Control group(A class)
Experimental group(B class)
Post-test(the second presentation)
The questionnaire
Teacher: • Evaluation form Students:• Evaluation form• Online peers
feedback
Teacher: • Evaluation formStudents: • Evaluation form• Online peers
feedback• Oral peers
feedback in class
The questionnaire
Data analysis
Is there any change between students’ first and second presentation?
T-test
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Data analysis
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Is there any difference of the scores between peer feedback and teacher feedback?
T-test
Data analysis
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What is the student’s perceptions on peer feedback?
Descriptive /Interview
Thanks for listening!
Questions & Suggestions
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