A Study on the Application of Peer Feedback among EFL Students in Blended Teaching

Zhou Xu(School of Foreign Languages, Hubei University)

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the rise and popularity of blended teaching for EFL students, yet the lack of face-to-face communication and insufficient interaction lead researchers and educators to explore methods of improving the effectiveness of teaching. Peer feedback, a teaching strategy used to raise the bars by exposing instructions to a new teaching perspective to enhance students’ online and offline collaboration, has received the lion’s share of attention in recent studies. On the basis of literature review, class records, and interviews, this paper, in hope of supporting advances in teachers’ practice and field researches, examines the possible approaches to effectively implementing the application of peer feedback in blended teaching mode with a special focus on teachers’ roles.

Keywords

Peer Feedback; EFL; Blended Teaching

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/jetm.v8i2.16508