The effect of peer feedback on the pimary school-eighth grade students? ability of narrative text writing

The purpose of this research is identifying whether there is an effect of peer feedback on the primary school, eighth grade students? ability of narrative text writing.Therefore, the research?s been made in the experimental model. Qualitative techniques and semi-structured meetings were also used in this research for the purpose of showing how peer interaction is realized.Each of the twenty students who consists the experiment group of the research composed three stories. The students were provided with the feedbacks from their peers in the parts of writing and punctuation, style, language and expression for the written stories. The feedback process was provided for the first two stories. In the third story, it was desired to see how much the students improved themselves by the help of the feedbacks. The last written stories are marked by the researcher by the help of the evaluation forms for the written expression. The feedbacks given by the each student to his or her peer were analyzed by the researcher with the help of the data analysis.At the end of the research, it was seen that peer feedback became helpful in the parts of style, language and expression for the students who took high marks from the narrative expression, and it was also seen that the students who took low marks additionally improved themselves in the punctuation marks, too. In the research, it was also seen that the peers gave wrong and inadequate feedbacks to each other.Key words: Writing Ability, Narrative Text, Peer Feedback