DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ORAL AND WRITTEN SKILLS THROUGH PEER ASSESSMENT

Ostonava Nozanin

Keywords: Key words: oral skill, writing skill, students, speaking, technique, peer assessment, performance, teaching


Abstract

The study aims to describe the implementation of peer assessment specifically
to describe the objective of the teaching, describe the material used in teaching-learning
process, and describe the procedures used in peer assessment especially in speaking
and describe the students’ response toward the technique. This research is a qualitative
research. The data are taken from event, informant, and document. In collecting data,
the researcher uses observation, interview, and documentation. Besides, This study
aimed at exploring the effect of using peer assessment in writing improvement of
students. In this paper, 30 students have to be guided by using a peer assessment
approach in their writing skills in class, and after that, they take their classmates'
feedback into account as a tool to reflect their improvement.


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