The Role of Peer and Teacher Feedback in Academic Writing Class

Abstract

Writing skill enables the writer to communicate a variety of messages to a close or distance, known or unknown readers. Viewing the importance of writing as communication, students are encouraged to express and organize their ideas into a text that need to be clear, relevant, truthful, informative, and interesting. The writing process forces greater demands on the text since written interaction lacks immediate feedback as a guide. This study investigates the role of teacher and peer feedback inserted in the steps of writing process on students’ writing achievement in academic writing for English department students. The writing processes include some steps; creating, planning, writing and polishing. The results showed that the technique contributed a significant improvement to the students writing achievement. To conclude, the role of teacher and peer feedback is considered to be one of the effective ways for the students in practicing writing.