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Chapter1 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Research
With the rapid development of international environment, the role of English has been becoming moreand more important in the world. As an international language, student can use English obtain the latestinformation form all over the world; students can use English to communicate with the foreign friendsabout different ideas; students can use English to learn new knowledge from each area; students can useEnglish to promote career after graduation; students can use English broaden their horizon. As we all knowthat learning English contains four parts: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Those four aspects arerelated with each other, and the most difficult task in learning English is writing.The writing ability belongs to written communication ability. Wang (2000) indicated that writing cangive students a chance to express their own voice, especially to those who are less confident to talk withclassmates and teachers. Moreover, writing can give students much more time to think about their thoughts.Written language is a kind of language communication just like spoken language.It is vital for students to combine what they have learned, such as: vocabularies, grammars andsentences. The writing process can help students review and build what they have learned. But writingseems the most difficulty ability for students to get. As Nunan (2001) indicated in his work:Among the four basic skills of English learning, writing is the last in sequence but should by no means be the leastin importance. In terms of skills, producing a coherent, fluent, extended piece of writing is probably the mostdifficult ting there is to do in language. It is something most native speaks never master.
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1.2 The Scope and Significance of the Research
Peer feedback is a complimentary method of teacher feedback, which had a great influence oneducation in China. There is a serious fact that each class has a huge number of students which has broughtgreat pressure to English teacher. English teachers are over burdened and often “suffer” from the “tediousand unrewarding chore of correcting students’ essays”. They have spent much time finishing the given classand doing other tasks. As a result, they don’t have enough time to correct every student’ composition. Eventeacher spent much time to correct their composition, most of students don’t take their seriously. They justglace the mark of the composition, let alone to spent time reviewing teachers’ feedback and correcting theirwrongs.Even though teachers spend a large amount of time in revising students’ compositions, theeffectiveness of teachers feedback is fruitless. Using peer feedback as a complimentary of teacher feedbackis a very significant way for giving comments, which could free teachers from the difficult situation ofrevising student composition. Meanwhile, it could give students more chances to take fully part in thewriting process and improve their leaning autonomy.
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Chapter 2 Literature Review

Fundamental ideas of peer feedback will be introduced in this chapter, including the definition of peerfeedback in writing, the crucial elements of peer feedback in writing, the significance of peer feedbacktraining in writing and the empirical studies of peer feedback at home and abroad.

2.1 Key Terms in this Research
Peer feedback as part