We report on an exploratory study comparing the performance as online tutors of two groups of beginner eleven-year-old students of English in Colombia and Spanish in New Zealand. The native speaker students of the foreign language the others were learning corrected paragraphs written by their peers. The feedback provided by each group of tutors…

Examines peer and teacher feedback offered to individual writers, using data from a qualitative study into the effects of feedback on English-as-Second-Language writers. Focuses on two cases of two students whose use of feedback and interactions with their teachers raise questions relating to the ownership of their writing and revision processes.…