5. Background Cooperative learning provides a non-threatening learning context for interaction between students. During cooperative learning, students are exposed to other perspectives and alternatives, they share and exchange ideas, criticize and provide feedback. (Tang, 1998) 5
6. Motivation Individual and group accountability is that students can teach what they learn from someone else. The smaller group, the greater individual accountability may have. (Johnson & Johnson, 1993) 6
7. Motivation Feedback can be described as information provided to an individual to increase performance. (Kluger & Denisi, 1996) 7
10. Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning have four characteristics, (Oxford,1997) 10 1. It can decrease the students’ anxiety and prejudice. 2. It can increase students’ intrinsic motivation. 3. It can create concern an altruistic relationship between students. 4. It can guide students’ own self-regulation.
11. Feedback and Peer feedback Feedback can have a strong positive effect on learning under certain conditions. (Bangert-Drowns et al., 1991; Kluger & DeNisi, 1996) 11
12. Feedback and Peer feedback Feedback as all post-response information that is provided to a learner to inform the student on his or her actual state of learning or performance and different between external and internal sources of feedback. (Narciss, 2008) 12
13. Feedback and Peer feedback Peer feedback can be beneficial for learning, which might even be due to the difference from teacher feedback. (Topping, 1998) 13
14. Peer Feedback and Teacher Feedback Peer feedback and teacher feedback can complementeach other, with students at times being more adept atresponding to a student’s work as truly being in progress than the teachers. (Caulk, 1994; Devenney, 1989) 14
15. The Feedback in Oral Course The goal of feedback is to give presenters information about their performance and about future actions to take in order to improve their oral presentation skills. (Nicol & Milligan, 2006) 15
16. Purpose of the study to explore the effect of peer feedback on college students’ oral performance 16
17. Purpose of the study to investigate the perspectives of students on peer feedback 17