Home >

news Help

Publication Information


Title
Japanese: 
English:Analyzing the Effects of Peer Review Activities in the EFL Writings 
Author
Japanese: 吉澤小百合, 寺野隆雄, 吉川厚.  
English: Sayuri Yoshizawa, Takao Terano, atsushi yoshikawa.  
Language English 
Journal/Book name
Japanese: 
English:Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computers in Education 
Volume, Number, Page         pp. 738-742
Published date Nov. 2010 
Publisher
Japanese: 
English:the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) 
Conference name
Japanese: 
English:ICCE2010 
Conference site
Japanese: 
English:Putrajaya, Malaysia. 
Official URL http://www.apsce.net/ICCE2010/contentpro.html
 
Abstract In this paper, we propose a new method to analyze the effect of peer review activities in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) writing classes. Although a number of studies on peer review activities have been conducted in the last two decades, no method that can objectively analyze the effects of the approach has been proposed thus far. We surmised the degree of difference of the essays by focusing on the estimation of similarity of the documents using the normalized compression distance (NCD), a compression-based classification algorithm. We have applied the NCD measures to the student reports in the college EFL writing courses. The proposed method was found to be beneficial in evaluating the writings of the pre and post peer review activities.

©2007 Tokyo Institute of Technology All rights reserved.