The role of peer feedback in learning to write explanatory texts: why the tutors learn the most

French students in grades 4 and 5 in schools around Paris wrote explanatory texts in L1 following a lesson in the Life Sciences, four times over the course of the school year. Each session included written correspondence with another student; half the students (Group G1) made suggestions about ways to improve the drafts of the other half of the students (Group G2). All students then revised their text. The results show: (1) an improvement in the...