THE LINGUISTIC AND METHODOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PEER EDITING

Abstract

Like in any other learning situation, in a second language classroom a learner essentially needs to be provided with feedback on his/her performance. Due to the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching and Learner-centered Teaching, students’ active participation in language learning is now highly sought and therefore, peer correction is becoming increasingly popular among the practitioners. This paper re-views peer correction as a ‘popular’ technique to be used in classroom and explores several issues regarding this. It also places peer correction in the context of students of professional college and tries to find out the effectiveness of the technique particularly for the classrooms of the Republic of Uzbekistan.