Identification of the Problems
based on their preliminary ability in writing ranging from the lowest scores to the highest. The reason for choosing 1
st
year of college students as subject of the research was to promote their critical thinking through peer correction activities
considering their beginning position which still needed much attention. In the activities, after basic knowledge of writing a paragraph, the
organization of paragraphs, and how to write a topic sentence and supporting sentences were taught; the students wrote and posted their writing on their
Facebook closed group. Next, they performed Facebook closed group peer correction whose group consisted of three students. In addition, the teaching
materials were adapted from the learning contract of Paragraph Writing subject. The topics were related to daily life, namely writing about
“Self,” “Personalities,” “Family,” and “A Member of Family,” which were delivered based on the
schedule in learning contract. 1.8. Definition of Terms
In relation to the uses of the research, there are several definitions clarified in order to have similar understanding. The terms can be described as follows:
Peer correction is referred to as peer review, peer feedback, peer editing, peer response, peer evaluation, and peer assessment, done traditionally in
the classroom. Bartels, 2003: 1988. Facebook closed group peer correction refers to as an activity where the
students perform peer correction online on a Facebook closed group
considering its potential feature for educational purposes Kabilan, 2010: 1.
Teaching writing is teaching the students how to organize and develop their ideas well by considering aspects of writing, namely content,
organization, vocabulary, language use grammar, and mechanics in order to have the reader understand the message or information intended Jacobs
et al., 1981: 2. Writing achievement is the students’ holistic writing performance
measured by the test Briggs in Rosita, 1997: 18.
In brief, this chapter has discussed several points explaining the reason and the importance of conducting the research. This chapter has also discussed
background of the problems, identification of the problems, limitation of the problem, research questions, objectives, uses, scope, and definition of terms.