The role of peer correction and teacher feedback in the improvement of writing skills in high school students

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Abstract:This research is titled The role of peer correction and teacher feedback in the improvement of writing skills in students , whose purpose was to analyze the effects of peer and teacher corrections and to identify the type of feedback that EFL students prefer.The methodological design is mixed, including qualitative and quantitative data. The participants were students from the second year of high school.The instruments were the pretest, the checklist, the posttest and the survey. In the intervention,students wrote six paragraphs.The pretest and the posttest were used to measure the improvement of writing skills, before and after applying peer correction and teacher feedback. The checklist was used to know the effects of peer correctionin paragraphs: 2, 4 and 6. The survey was applied at the end of the intervention.The results obtained were classified, organized and interpreted to answer the research questions. Finally, the research showedthat the applications of teacher feedback helped to students to increase the level of the ability to write correctly.