Is it more effective to enhance peer tutors' content knowledge or their tutoring skills?

What is it about?

Tutoring by peers has been around for some time. It should lower teachers' workload and, more importantly, increase the grasp of tutees and tutors of the subject matter. However, presumably tutors need some training in order to do their job. Would it be more effective to increase their grasp of the subject matter before acting as a tutor rather than providing them with more tutoring skills? The answer (in situations of reciprocal peer tutoring) seems to be that enhancing tutoring skills is the better option.

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Why is it important?

Characteristic of the present study is its focus on reciprocal peer tutoring, which is symmetric rather than asymmetric as in cases in which senior students tutor junior students.