The Advantages of Peer Comment in
Facebook
Harry Utama Putra
06101001031
There are many way to comment student’s work in
writing, one of them is in Facebook. Facebook provides a special place to put
student’s writing named group. Every
student can post their works in that group and then all of their friends can
see and give the comment if they find the mistaken in the written text. Peer
comment can change individual Learning become collaborative learning and
decrease teacher centered (Tsui and Ng). Thus, peer comment in Facebook is
useful for student. In contrast, there are also disadvantages of peer comment
in Facebook, but this essay will concern about the advantages one: encourage collaborative
learning and give students a wider range of feedback.
First of all, peer comment in Facebook can encourage
online collaborative learning. It will be diminish what people said teacher
centered. Walker and Daniels state “Collaborative Learning is a hybrid of soft
systems methodology (SSM), experiential and adult learning theories, and the
alternative dispute resolution (ADR) areas of conflict resolution, mediation
and negotiation.” So, if there is a good interaction between the students, for
example, comment on each other in Facebook, it will make learning process run
collaboratively. In collaborative setting, student can learn from their friends
and catch mutual support (Patrick and Wendy). As a result, it will be enhance
collaborative learning among the students.
Second advantage is that peer comment in Facebook
gives the students a wider range of feedback. Every student has a wide chance
to criticize their friends works if they thought there’s some mistaken in their
friends works. According to Rudy, “Peers are practically a good source of
feedback, the helpfulness of their comments on peer writing can be very
limited.” Similarly, Zainurahhman said that peer feedback is interpretation
from other students to read and to give comments, corrections, criticisms, and
suggestions on what other students have written. In addition, give comment to
their friend’s work in Facebook is the way for them to improve their creativity
in analysis and developing grammatical skill by advisory them in written
feedback. Therefore, wide range of feedback is important for students.
It is clear that there are many positive things in Facebook
if we want to know and use it properly; Teaching and learning process also can
run in there, especially in group. Facebook has raised collaborative learning
and provided more chance for the student to give feedback of their friends in
writing. Thus, the teachers have to know about technology development
especially in improving the learning media which can make the student more
interest in writing subject. Besides, for the student, peer comment is one of
million ways to increase writing skill and appreciation of their friend’s
writing.
References
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Rudy, R. Indrawati.
(2011). From Classroom to Peer Comment in
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Walker, Gregg and
Daniels, Steve. (2012). the Basic of
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