EFL teachers’ attempts at feedback innovation in the writing classroom

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 248-269

  Lee, Icy ^a   Mak, Pauline ^b   Burns, Anne ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

EFL writing; feedback; innovation; L2 writing; professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958056004     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168815581007     Document Type: Article

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