Student engagement with teacher written corrective feedback in EFL writing: A case study of Chinese lower-proficiency students

Assessing Writing

Volumn 37, Issue , 2018, Pages 13-24

  Zheng, Yao ^a,b   Yu, Shulin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b YANGTZE NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EFL writing; Lower proficiency students; Student engagement; Written corrective feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043374985     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2018.03.001     Document Type: Article

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