The Effect of Peer Corrective Feedback on the Tenth Grade Students ?Writing Ability of Descriptive Text at SMA Pertiwi 1 Padang

This research was aimed to test the effect of peer corrective feedback technique toward students writing ability of descriptive text. The research design of this was 80, 2 while the control group got 71, 08. The result of this research found that the students who were taught by using peer corrective feedback produced better writing of descriptive text than those who were taught by using teachers feedback technique. It can be concluded that teaching writing descriptive text by using peer corrective feedback gives better result in students writing than teachers study was a quasi experimental design. The population was the first grade students of SMA Pertiwi 1 Padang. Two classes were randomly selected as the sample of the study. During the treatment, students in experimental group used peer corrective feedback technique, while students in control group used teachers feedback technique. The analysis of the test result showed that the students score of experimental group was higher than control group. In the post test, the mean score of the experimental group feedback