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7 Hold students’ responsibilities for taking peer feedback
opportunities seriously. The teacher in this step should underline that peer
feedback is important that the students can learn and benefit from the activities.
B. Review of Relevant Studies
This research employs the previous study to make easy in finishing this thesis. The previous study was conducted by Nasrin Shokrpour, Nikta
Keshavarz, and Seyed Mohammad Jafari in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences who conducted a research entitled,
“The Effect of Peer Review on Writing Skill of EFL Students
”. They observed two classes, control and
experimental. The results of the study showed that the writings skill of the students in the experimental group using peer review improved more than those
in the control group.
C. Conceptual framework
Writing is one of the four skills in English. It is considered as a difficult skill since it involves more language than the other skills. Writing became a
problem in SMP N 1 Mlati surrounding by several aspects that influence this problem. Those aspects were related to the teacher, students, and the learning
process. This study concerned with the activation of the peer feedback to the students.
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This peer-feedback technique allowed the students to be more involved in the learning process. Peer feedback assisted the students in the writing process. It
also boosted up their autonomy in learning since peer feedback more focuses on the collaborative learning to assist the independent learning. This technique also
enhanced the students’ writing ability since the students got not only various
exposures of texts but also various inputs and suggestions from their peer. This technique was aimed to
improve the students’ cooperative and collaborative learning to enhance their individuals’ writing ability.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research design
The research is in the form of action research. Action research, as suggested by Carr Kemmis 1999, is a form of self reflective enquiry done
by participant in social situation for example teachers, students, school principal in educational situation. The purpose of this kind of research is for
improving the social and educational practices of teachers, students, school principal in educational situation, and the situations in which these practices
are carried out. Hence, this study required the researcher to be involved directly.
Action research deals with identifying a problematic situation. The situation can come from the teachers, students, school principal, and the
school environment as well. The purpose of the problematizing situation is not to make a statement that the teacher, or everything involved in the teaching-
learning process is bad. But the main purpose is to make an improvement in everything that can possibly be done better.
This research also used the collaboration of the researcher and the collaborator. This collaboration helped the researcher to conduct the research
