ONLINE PEER CORRECTION TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL

Abstrak

One of the students-centre learning that can be applied by the lecturer who teaches writing in Higher Educationis Peer correction. It can be used as an essential tool to improve the students’ writing skill. This study is the second partof the research report of written and online peer correction in improving the students’ writing skill. The present studyfocused on the use of online peer correction in improving the students’ writing skill. The data collected by scoring thestudents’ writing posted and frequency of their comment in facebook group; analyzing the sentence structure, grammar,and mechanics. The first finding indicates that the students’ writing score is good; the second finding shows that theirgrammatical error is decrease; the use of punctuation is fairly good, and the use of capital and small letterinappropriately, because they were affected by typing habit in social media.