英文摘要 |
This article investigates whether students are discussing in order to improve their composition during peer response through analysis of utterance purpose. 15 sophomore students in a university in Taiwan enrolled in a compulsory writing course and participated in peer response. Peer response is done 10 times during the course. Each time, the conversation of a group which is randomly chosen is being recorded, and is transcribed as the data of this study.Result shows that most students aimed to improve their composition, especially students taking positive attitude toward peer response promoted discussion. On the contrary, two causes of the increase number of chat utterances are that group members are too close, and group members are not so close and passive to point out mistakes on peers' composition. And furthermore, in the case of readers having difficulties in understanding peers' writings, the number of utterances to improve the composition decreased comparatively. |