The Effect of Peer-feedback on EFL Medical Students’ Writing Performance

Abstract

The current article investigates the effect of peer-feedback on writing performance of the Medical Students of Shiraz University. This research is experimental and fifty nine students both male and female participated in this study. The population included the medical students of Shiraz University.The researcher utilized convenient sampling to choose the participants. They were also divided to two groups. The treatment group which consist of 30 students and the control group which were 29 students. The researcher used writing composition in order to gather the data required for the writing performance and questionnaire based on the Likerd scale for the writing self-efficacy. The data gathered in a Pretest-Treatment-Posttest Design. The results indicate that there is a positive relationship betweenpeer-feedback and the improvement of the writing performance.