THE EFFECT OF PEER REVIEW ON ENGLISH WRITING SELFEFFICACY AMONG CHINESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

In this study, the English Writing Self-efficacy Inventory was used to compare 175 non-English majors between the experimental group and control group in order to examine the effect of peer review on College English writing self-efficacy. The results showed that peer review can significantly improve college students’ self-efficacy in English writing, and the improvement of female students’ self-efficacy is higher than the male students. The result also indicated that College English writing self-efficacy of students with low English proficiency level showed more improvement than the students with high English proficiency level.

Keywords: Peer review, English writing, Self-efficacy