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Designing an Online Learning and Peer Feedback Platform for GRE Writing Test Preparation

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Current Developments in Web Based Learning (ICWL 2015)

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In this paper, an online platform for learning GRE writing and providing peer feedback is designed. The platform consists of 4 modules: the first module helps the users to get familiar with the rhetorical moves and linguistic features found in the model essays; the second module trains the users to recognise the problems with content and form and prepare the users for peer review; the third module simulates the test environment for the users to practice writing with time constraints; the final module allows the users to review other users’ writing from module 3.

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  1. Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Simon Ho Wang

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  1. University of Macau, Macau, China

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  2. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Dickson K. W. Chiu

  3. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Di Zou

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Wang, S.H. (2016). Designing an Online Learning and Peer Feedback Platform for GRE Writing Test Preparation. In: Gong, Z., Chiu, D., Zou, D. (eds) Current Developments in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9584. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32865-2_17

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