英文摘要 |
The effect of technology-assisted peer-assessment has been widely verified. However, most research focused on higher education contexts, and few examined its effects on English pronunciation. With technology, feedback-provision can include audio and/or video. Nonetheless, currently, very few examined their relative learning effects. With reference to social learning, expectancy-value, self-regulated learning, and media richness theories, this study investigated the effect of different sources (i.e., from the teacher or peers) and types of peer feedback (i.e., written or audio) on elementary schoolers’ pronunciation performance and English learning motivation, anxiety, and attitudes. A non-equivalent pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research was adopted. Three fourth-grade classes (n = 75) participated for eight weeks and were randomly assigned to teacher feedback, peer written feedback, peer audio feedback groups. Major findings from the analysis of covariance and one-sample t-tests include: 1. No significant differences among groups in pronunciation performance. 2. No significant differences among groups in all three affective learning outcomes. 3. After the online learning activity, (a) all three groups exhibited higher English learning motivation, (b) the teacher feedback group had significantly lower scores in English anxiety, and (c) both peer feedback groups had significantly higher scores in English attitudes. Despite that this study did not substantiate our research hypotheses that peer-assessment is significantly better than teacher feedback in promoting English pronunciation performance and affective learning, the results from further correlation analysis of peers’ and the teacher’s ratings, and content analysis of the descriptive comments by both peer-assessment groups revealed that fourth-graders can learn to provide individualized and concrete feedback. |