Sugaring the pill Praise and criticism in written feedback

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 185-212

  Hyland, Fiona ^a   Hyland, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Miscommunication; Mitigation; Praise and criticism; Teacher feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013433780     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1060-3743(01)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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