Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Teachers’ Belief of Peer Feedback in Academic Writing Class

Teachers’ Belief of Peer Feedback in Academic Writing Class
ABSTRACT
In the context of Academic Writing as a course, the need for peer feedback is important
since the students need the feedback not only from teacher. According teachers, problem may
arise when peer feedback has been applied in Academic writing class is the implementation is
sometimes difficult to do for students. One crucial issue related to this is the teachers’ beliefs
towards peer feedback for the course, which this study attempts to find out about the way
teachers think about peer feedback in Academic Writing course. The instrument used was a
semi-structured interview with eight participants writing teachers. Throughout the study the
researcher obtained three findings and those were (i) participants viewed peer feedback as a way
to motivate students, (ii) peer feedback implementation is difficult to do, and (iii) the advantages
after peer feedback applied is greater than disadvantages.
Key words : Academic Writing, teachers’ beliefs, peer feedback, implementation