Effects of peer-review on Peerceptiv in English writing

Peer review refers to the activities that students review each other’s works and put forward suggestions for modification. In the process of peer review, students are both writers and reviewers, which is conducive to playing an active role for students in improving their writing ability. This current study investigated effects of peer review of 18 English Majors’ compositions and the comments (a total of 436) based on Peerceptiv online peer-review system. After detailed data analysis and discussion, this study draws the following conclusions: (1) The distribution of comments’ types is different. From the three dimensions of affective, cognitive and meta-cognitive, students received the most cognitive comments and the least affective comments. (2) The implementation rate of different types of comments is also different. The comments that give clear suggestions for revision in the cognitive dimension have the highest implementation rate, while the comments expressing support in the affective dimension have the lowest implementation. (3) By investigating the improvement rate of students’ second draft, it is found that peer-review comments have a positive impact on the improvement of students’ writing performance.