An Examination of Hostility in Peer Feedback

This study examines evidence of hostility in recent literature that has focused on peer feedback and compares this evidence with the results of a closeness questionnaire that was conducted among university-level Japanese L2 learners. These aims are pursued by analyzing previous cases of hostility in studies on peer feedback, hypothesizing the underlying causes, and comparing these with cases of hostility within four cohorts of peers. The investigations find that hostility is not a noticeable relationship when observing entire cohorts, but is noticeable within distant-hostile ratings. The study suggests that hostility is an important yet overlooked phenomenon in peer feedback that may influence the accuracy of studies that observe phenomenon related to distant relationships.