Different dimensions of teacher and peer assessment of EFL learners’ writing: descriptive and narrative genres in focus

Language Testing in Asia

Table 3 The analytical scheme for classifying TA and PA on descriptive writing tasks

Category	Theme	Teacher feedback	Peer feedback
Category	Theme	Example	Example
Organization	• Transitional devices	“The sentences need a connector, therefore?”	“I think the sentences are very short.”
Development	• Details	“Add adverbs to modify the verb *work.*”	“……. Working hard”
Sentence structure	• Compound sentence • Complex sentence • Subject-verb agreement	“Dangling subject!” Who is the doer in this sentence?	“They ……… have cooperated.”
Word choice and grammar	• Singular vs plural nouns • Adjective vs adverb • Pronoun	“activitiveness? Check your dictionary.”	“The tenses are not correct.”
Mechanics	• Capitalization • Punctuation • Spelling	“however; it needs semicolon.”	“Names of the seas are capital.”