Tekstmarkering, kommentarar og metaspråk

How do students in the second year of upper secondary school (vg2) comment on each other’s texts, which text aspects are emphasized and what meta-language do they use in such comments? The article presents a study of first drafts of academic articles in two vg2 classes, where students provide each other with feedback in the form of markings and comments. The texts are part of a text exchange project between two different classes from different parts of the country, where students provide anonymous feedback to the students in the other class. In addition to a classification of the comments with regard to text aspect and the functions of the comments, the specific meta-language the students use is examined more closely. The analysis shows that the students have a good balance between form and content and between micro and macro level in their text comments. At the same time, both praising and directive comments are largely general, which can make them less suitable as a basis for revision. All in all, it seems that the students have stronger and more explicit competence in the overall content and text organization aspects of the texts than is the case for form aspects and language systemic aspects. It is also related to the overall organization of the texts that they to the greatest extent display the use of an expanded meta-language.