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Interpersonal aspects of response: Constructing and interpreting teacher written feedback

Ken Hyland, Fiona Hyland·2006·Feedback in Second Language Writing
DOI 10.1017/cbo9781139524742.013
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As a pedagogical genre, teacher written feedback is designed to carry a heavy informational load, offering commentary on the form and content of a text to encourage students to develop their writing and consolidate their learning. The information offers the assistance of an expert, guiding the learner through the “zone of proximal development” (Vygotsky, 1978) and providing opportunities for students to see how others respond to their work and to learn from these responses. Feedback plays a pedagogical role by pointing forward to other texts students will write, assisting students to work out the text's potential and to comprehend the writing context, and providing a sense of audience and an understanding of the expectations of the communities they are writing for. The substantial comments that many teachers write on student papers thus do more than simply justify a grade. They provide a reader reaction and offer targeted instruction. Often, however, written feedback has been seen as purely informational, a means of channeling reactions and advice to facilitate improvements. Response is therefore discussed as if it were an objective, impersonal, and purely didactic discourse – simply an interaction between a teacher and a text. But, although the information in feedback is a key factor in learning to write, it is effective only if it engages with the writer and gives him or her a sense that it is a response to a person rather than to a script.

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Authors
Hyland, K., & Hyland, F.
Affiliations
University of London (GB)
ORCID
Ken Hyland
Venue
Feedback in Second Language Writing
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2006-08-14
Pages
206-224
DOI
10.1017/cbo9781139524742.013
OpenAlex
W1550188472
Cited by
140
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12.25
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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closed
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www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 2244 d)
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Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Linguistics and Education Research
Keywords
teacher written feedback, written corrective feedback, zone of proximal development, writing instruction, student writing, reader response

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