Process Oriented Writing v ia Computer Mediated Peer Reviewing: The Case of English Inner Circle Learners of Arabic as A Foreign Language
International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research, 2020
8 Pages Posted: 25 May 2021
Date Written: April 16, 2020
Abstract
Product-oriented writing negatively influences learners’ perceptions and attitudes towards Arabic as a foreign language writing. This study aims to discover the effect that a process-oriented instructional method via computer technologies had on students’ writing. The invasion, in this case, study for an academic semester at the Islamic University of Madinah involved an important peer-reviewing component additionally to individual and collective teacher feedback. A corpus of learners’ preliminary writings and subsequent revisions and peer-reviews was investigated. It was discovered that the approach supports students’ learning, though there were flexible results in students’ capabilities to use this method for different writing contexts. The study contributes new visions into the lively relationship between making correct forms and observing errors in one’s peer’s writing with numerous pedagogical implications.
Keywords: Arabic Learners, Computer, English Inner Circle, Foreign Language Acquisition, Peer-Reviewing, Process-Oriented Writing
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