Peer feedback is widely recognized as an effective technique for improving writing skills; however, most existing studies have been conducted at the university level. There is still limited study to find out that peer feedback technique can improve students’ writing skill especially in Lower Secondary Level (SMP). This study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of peer feedback in improving students’ writing skill in lower secondary level. One school from Bangkalan was taken to conduct this research. This was a quasi- experimental study. There were two classess used to be experimental group and control group. The data were obtained by using pretest and posttest from both groups and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The hypothesis was tested by using Independent-Samples of T-Test SPSS 16.0 Program. The significance level of was .041. In conclusion, the students who were taught using peer feedback had better writing skill than the students who were taught without using peer feedback.
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