A Study on the Mode of Peer Revision in English Writing Based on WeChat Platform

Peer revision plays an important role in College English writing teaching. It is the combination of educational function of WeChat platform and the peer revision mode in English writing that forms a new teaching mode in college English writing teaching, to some extent, improve the students’ English writing ability. 1. What is the mode of peer revision in English writing? English writing is a very important part of English teaching, which has been the consensus of language experts and scholars. English writing is not only an important means of language communication, but also an important indicator of English comprehensive ability. For a long time, English writing has always been the bottleneck of restricting at various levels and English teaching effect, how to build effective and scientific method in English writing, is also the topic which needs the majority of English teachers and researchers to explore. Since the 1970s, education experts have shifted the focus of English writing teaching from traditional “productive writing” to “process writing”. The former is that teachers give students directions and students respond to, but this writing mode failed to fully embody the leading position of students learning. Some students complete the writing passively and even ignore the teacher's comments. However, the latter emphasizes that writing is a series of cognitive activities and interactive activities and also the ultimate manifestation of the ability to interact and write. Students' subjectivity has been fully developed in this way of writing, which has stimulated the students' independent thinking ability. The advantages of peer evaluation in writing teaching are constantly improved and amended, which is increasingly prominent in various teaching methods, and is actively explored by education experts at home and abroad. Peer revision, also known as peer feedback, peer review, and peer assessment, etc., refers to an activity of writing teaching in which peers read each other’s writing, point out shortcomings and grammatical wrong and modify them. During the process of peers’ correction, they provide feedback and suggestion to improve their writing level and achieve progress together. Gauk’s studies have shown that peers correction can help improve students’ writing as teachers do. Richards believes that students' critical reading ability and analytical ability can be improved with feedback from others and reflect on their own writing during the process of feedback. Peer feedback can not only improve the writer's writing ability but also improve the reader's understanding ability. The views of teaching and learning under the theory of constructivism show that both teaching and cooperation should be centered on students, and the mode of student mutual evaluation matches the theory. When the students finish the first draft, peers give feedback in time, which plays a decisive role in the whole writing process. First, it can arouse the author's reader consciousness, and it is easy for writer to understand readers and their expectations and attitude to the article, which make writer clarify his real aim of communication, and enhance their writing motivation and interest in the following practice; Second, peer revision whose main form is the mutual interaction and negotiation not only can enrich the author’s cognitive schema, to enhance its capability of error correction, to improve the depth of information processing, but also can promote the students' ability of social cognition, social interaction and construction of text. At present “teacher evaluation” is a major teaching mode of in the second language writing teaching. Because students are lack of necessary activities of a collective writing input, reader 145 Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 230 3rd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2018)