Feedback in Hong Kong secondary writing classrooms: Assessment for learning or assessment of learning?

Assessing Writing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 180-198

  Lee, Icy ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Assessment for learning; Feedback; L2 writing; Secondary school; Teacher response; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549107463     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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