The Impact of Out-of-class Friends’ Interaction on Second Language Writing
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of friends’ interaction outside the classroom on the development and production of writing in English as a second language inside the classroom. The paper examines second language writing from the perspective of second language learning in the field of education. The terms: friends, friendship, interaction, and conversational interaction are explored as they mean in the context of this study. Then an experimental study is performed to examine the feedback the students obtain from the interaction with their friends within the same field of study and the impact of this interaction on developing the students’ writing and revision. The paper discusses how the interaction has or has not changed the writer of the paper’s view of the topic. The result of the study shows that friends’ feedback outside of the classroom plays a very important role in enhancing and developing second language writing. The group interaction helped in improving the writer’s ideas, knowledge, linguistic and academic skills which all lead to producing a better written text.