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Abstract
The present study engages distance learning students in providing feedback on their peers' written assignment and subsequently gauges learners' response to this feedback. Four groups of Hellenic Open University M.Ed. TESOL learners, a total of 78 students, were divided into feedback givers and receivers and, once the feedback provision process had been completed, were presented with a questionnaire on giver or receiver perceptions respectively. More specifically, givers were asked to evaluate one written assignment produced by receivers along the lines of the criteria postulated for assignment evaluation by the tutor and to provide both in-text and end-of-text comments while both givers and receivers subsequently commented on the process. The main purpose was to see how peer feedback is perceived on both sides as well as to find out how dialogue and multiple voices resonate in peer feedback provision, possibly underpinning power relations. Students' choices with regard to variables such as directness, form as against content, specificity and selectivity were also explored. Generally, peer feedback tended to be rather judgmental, more so than tutor feedback. The dialogic element was given prominence in students' responses but the broader social implications of the peer feedback provision process were generally neglected.