While research on peer feedback in L2 writing has proliferated over the past two decades, not much is known about how EFL writers, driven by their motives and situated within their social, cultural and historical contexts, participate in group peer feedback of L2 writing. To fill such an important void, the present study investigates six Chinese EFL university students’ participation in group peer feedback activities of L2 writing from a sociocultural and activity theory perspective. Based on sociocultural theory and activity theory in particular, the present study proposes a tentative group peer feedback activity system model and explores Chinese EFL writers’ motives for participating in group peer feedback, how their motives influence group interaction and text revisions, and how they employ mediating strategies to facilitate group interaction and realize their motives during group peer feedback activities. / The study adopts a case study approach with a multiple-case design and collects multiple sources of data including video recordings of peer feedback sessions, semi-structured interviews, stimulated recalls, and drafts of student texts. Six Chinese EFL university students were selected through purposive sampling to participate in the study. Data analyses indicate that EFL students’ group peer feedback activities are driven and defined by their motives and mediated by their social, cultural and historical contexts. The findings revealed four major types of student motives for group peer feedback activities in the writing classroom: (1) feedback-giving and the learning process; (2) feedback-receiving and the learning product; (3) fixing errors in writing; and (4) getting the job done, which were shaped by a myriad of individual and sociocultural factors such as students’ personal belief systems, their secondary education experiences and the exam-oriented learning culture and education system. The study also found that student motives for peer feedback have great influences on students’ stances for group peer feedback and the patterns of group interaction, as well as the text revisions. Driven by different motives, the students were involved in different peer feedback systems in which they took different stances for peer feed-back and interacted differently with their group members, even though some of them were working in the same group and of similar English proficiency level. The study also reveals four major types of mediating strategies in peer feedback activities of L2 writing: artefact-mediated, rule-mediated, community-mediated, and division of labour-mediated strategies. The six students made use of these mediating strategies at different levels to realize their motives in the peer feedback activities. / Informed by the peer feedback activity system and the major findings of the present study, a tentative model to conceptualize the effective peer feedback activity in the EFL writing classroom has been proposed, which serves as a tentative conceptual and pedagogical model for research and practice in peer feedback of L2 writing. This study contributes new knowledge to the field by relating students’ motives to other key elements in peer feedback such as mediating strategies, peer stances, group interaction and student revisions of L2 writing, yielding a deepened understanding of students’ participation in and engagement with peer feedback in EFL writing. / 儘管在二語寫作領域有大量研究關注同伴回饋，但鮮有研究者探討外語寫作學習者如何在其動機的驅使下和社會文化環境的影響下參與小組同伴回饋活動。鑒於此，本研究在社會文化理論和活動理論的基礎上，構建了外語寫作小組同伴回饋活動系統，並以該活動系統為概念框架探究六位中國外語寫作學習者的小組同伴回饋動機，分析其與小組交互和文本修改的關係。本研究還探討外語寫作學習者如何採取仲介策略輔助小組交互和實現回饋動機。 / 本研究採用多案例個案研究的範式，通過目的性抽樣原則，從中國大陸某大學選取六位英語寫作學習者作為被試，收集了多種形式的資料，包括同伴回饋錄影、半結構性訪談、刺激性回憶和寫作文本資料。資料分析顯示外語寫作學習者的小組同伴回饋活動由學生的動機驅使，並受到學生所處的社會文化環境影響。研究發現四種類型的同伴回饋動機：（1）回饋給予與學習過程型；（2）回饋接收與學習結果型；（3）修改文本錯誤型；和（4）完成任務型。這四類同伴回饋動機是在學習者個體因素（如學生的信念、中學學習經歷等）和社會文化因素（如考試取向的教育環境等）的交互影響下形成的。本研究還發現回饋動機對學習者的回饋立場、小組交互模式及其文本修改都會有一定的影響。在不同類型動機的驅使下，即使學習者來自同一小組或英語水準相當，他們也嵌套于不同的同伴回饋系統中，其回饋立場和交互模式也會有所不同。研究還揭示出學生在小組同伴回饋中採用四種仲介策略實現其回饋動機：人工製品仲介策略、規則仲介策略、社群仲介策略和任務分工仲介策略。 / Yu, Shulin. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-275). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 21, December, 2016). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_1290690 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Contributors | Yu, Shulin (author.), Lee, Icy (thesis advisor.), Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Education. (degree granting institution.) |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography, text |
| Format | electronic resource, electronic resource, remote, 1 online resource (xv, 283 leaves) : illustrations (some color), computer, online resource |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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