Share Paper: Effects of Blogging Feedback on Turkish EFL Students’ Writing Performance

  1. Hatime Ciftci, South Florida University, Turkey
  2. Zeynep Kocoglu, Yeditepe University, Turkey
Tuesday, June 28 11:15-11:45 AM Room 4 - Faculty of Letters Building

Abstract: With the growing demand of Computer-Mediated Communication in foreign language teaching, online peer feedback through blogs has become popular in writing classes. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of online peer feedback through blogs on Turkish EFL students’ writing performance. Data were collected before, during, and after Spring 2008 term by using; a) Turkish EFL Students’ Background Survey (adapted from Jones, 2006), b) first and second (or revised) drafts produced by the students. 30 freshmen Turkish EFL students participated in the study. The results of mixed factorial analysis of variances (ANOVA) revealed the effect of online peer ...