Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates

This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critica...

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Main Authors:	Gao, Xianwei, Adelina Asmawi, Samuel, Moses
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10657/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10657/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10657/1/12865-47846-2-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-106572017-09-11T02:38:31Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10657/ Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates Gao, Xianwei Adelina Asmawi, Samuel, Moses This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critical peer feedback, and issues in critical peer feedback. A qualitative case study is conducted with six Chinese undergraduates. Three kinds of data including semi-structured interviews, Business English writing assignments and artifacts of critical peer feedback, are analyzed by QSR Nvivo 8. The findings reveal that critical peer feedback is a strategy of higher-order peer feedback to improve the higher-level writing. The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is accepted for critical peer feedback. Critical peer feedback improves the quality of peer feedback and the quality of Business English writing. Qzone blog is a convenient ICT platform for critical peer feedback with many strengths. However, six issues are also perceived in the practice of critical peer feedback. The finding is significant to the process of critical peer feedback in second language writing. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10657/1/12865-47846-2-PB.pdf Gao, Xianwei and Adelina Asmawi, and Samuel, Moses (2017) Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 17 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/897
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description	This study explored critical peer feedback with critical thinking to improve Business English writing. Higher-order thinking skills in peer feedback is conducted to facilitate higher-level writing. This study focuses on the participants’ mechanism of critical peer feedback, Qzone blog for critical peer feedback, and issues in critical peer feedback. A qualitative case study is conducted with six Chinese undergraduates. Three kinds of data including semi-structured interviews, Business English writing assignments and artifacts of critical peer feedback, are analyzed by QSR Nvivo 8. The findings reveal that critical peer feedback is a strategy of higher-order peer feedback to improve the higher-level writing. The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is accepted for critical peer feedback. Critical peer feedback improves the quality of peer feedback and the quality of Business English writing. Qzone blog is a convenient ICT platform for critical peer feedback with many strengths. However, six issues are also perceived in the practice of critical peer feedback. The finding is significant to the process of critical peer feedback in second language writing.
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author	Gao, Xianwei Adelina Asmawi, Samuel, Moses
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title	Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates
title_short	Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates
title_full	Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates
title_fullStr	Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates
title_full_unstemmed	Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates
title_sort	critical peer feedback for business english writing through qzone blogs: a mechanism among chinese undergraduates
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Critical peer feedback for business English writing through Qzone blogs: a mechanism among Chinese undergraduates

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