Peer feedback and the oral production

Abstract

Peer feedback is a practical strategy where students interact with each other to assist and assess their productive skills. Nowadays, this strategy has had a positive impact on the development of students’ oral skills. For that reason, the objective of the present research was to determine the influence of peer feedback on the evaluation of students’ English oral production. The participants in this study were students who belonged to the seventh semester of Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros at Universidad Técnica de Ambato for two weeks. The methodology used in this study was quasi-experimental and data was collected by performing a pre-test and a post-test to both groups, experimental and control. An interactive oral activity in pairs was considered on both tests and the participants were assessed based on a speaking assessment rubric. Moreover, a survey was applied and analyzed qualitatively using frequency and percentage. Thus, a T-test was used to corroborate statistically the mentioned hypothesis. As a result, implementing peer feedback enables students to give and receive feedback about their peer presentation and it permitted to conclude that peer feedback strategy influences the improvement of students’ oral production of the English language