1st Edition

International L2 Students' Engagement with Teacher Feedback Perspectives from a Globalised Higher Education Context

By Fangfei Li Copyright 2025
196 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Fangfei Li investigates L2 international students’ engagement with teacher feedback in the UK higher education system. She focuses on Chinese students studying at a UK university and explores their engagement with the feedback from local teachers and the factors which influence their participation and engagement. Offering numerous illustrative examples of how students transformed their... Read more

Lists of figures

List of tables

Chapter 1. Introduction

Feedback in learning        

My Story: An experience with teacher feedback

Feedback contexts in the higher education of China and UK

Understanding L2 Chinese students’ engagement with teacher feedback in UK HE             

Overview of the study

Methodological approach

Setting

Recruitment of participants        

Data collection

Data analysis

Data reporting

Ethical issues and dilemmas       

Book structure    

 

Chapter 2. Literature review           

Theoretical frameworks guiding feedback    

Transmissive view        

Social constructivism   

Sociocultural perspective            

Sociomaterial perspective           

Student engagement with teacher feedback  

Defining engagement with teacher feedback           

Components of engagement with teacher feedback

Interplay among affective, cognitive, and behavioural engagement    

Factors influencing students’ engagement with teacher feedback           

Epistemological stance 

Interpersonal factors     

Contextual factors        

Student Feedback Literacy

Student Feedback Literacy: Theoretical development          

The Landscape of L2 Disciplinary Writing and Feedback    

Feedback Literacy in L2 Disciplinary Writing

Chapter conclusion           

 

Chapter 3. Students’ engagement with teacher feedback in the UK HE

Affective engagement

Students’ mixed emotions in response to the first piece of written feedback         

Students’ conflicting emotions towards affirmation in feedback         

Students’ conflicting emotions towards criticism in feedback

Cognitive engagement      

Incomprehension of feedback information

Need for contextualised feedback

Learning from feedback about academic writing conventions            

Associating feedback with future learning

Behavioural engagement  

Transforming teacher feedback into writing practice            

Students’ modes of communication with teachers in the feedback exchange    

Chapter conclusion           

 

Chapter 4. Student feedback literacy in L2 disciplinary writing

Cognitive readiness          

L2 pragmatic competence

Evaluative judgement

Linguistic knowledge   

Academic knowledge       

Socio-affective readiness 

Proactivity      

Attitudes towards and appreciation of feedback

Chapter conclusion           

 

Chapter 5. Individual, social, and contextual factors influencing the students’ engagement with teacher feedback in the UK HE context

Individual students’ epistemological positions

Dualistic way of knowing           

Pluralistic way of knowing

Students’ social identity   

Claiming self as foreign students

Claiming self as non-native English speakers         

Social network    

Seeking feedback from peers      

Teacher-student relationship in feedback activities

Feedback content and delivery  

Chapter conclusion           

 

Chapter 6. Discussion

Summary of key findings

Theoretical development of feedback from a co-constructivist perspective          

Individual differences among participants

Dynamics in student engagement with teacher feedback          

Interplay among affective, cognitive, and behavioural engagement

Engagement with teacher feedback as a developmental process         

Student feedback literacy 

 

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Implications       

Limitations         

Future research   

Feedback provision plan for international students     

Final remarks     

 

References

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Fangfei Li is an associate professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law. Her research interests include teacher feedback, academic writing, L2 writing, higher education, and qualitative research. Her articles have been published in journals such as Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.