Can higher-proficiency L2 learners benefit from working with lower-proficiency partners in peer feedback?

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 178-192

  Yu, Shulin ^a   Hu, Guangwei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Peer feedback; second language proficiency; second language writing; zone of proximal development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989229058     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2016.1221806     Document Type: Article

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