EFL Writing Learners'Feedback Engagement and Its Influencing Factors in a Multiple-Interaction Environment from An Ecological Perspective
The present study investigated 12 English majors'longitudinal feedback engagement and its influencing factors in a multiple-interaction environment employing interviews,text analysis and classroom observations from an ecological perspective.Two developmental trajectories were revealed of learners'feedback engagement.One involves a transition from engagement with two types of feedback,i.e.,"pigai feedback(a type of automated feedback)+teacher feedback"or"peer feedback+teacher feedback",to engagement with all three types of feedback,i.e.,"pigai feedback+peer feedback+teacher feedback".The other entails a sustained pattern of engagement with all three types of feedback.For both trajectories alike,the inconsistencies among the three dimensions of feedback engagement gradually diminished over time.Five factors were found to contribute to the dynamics of feedback engagement,namely,learning goals,teachers,peers,course assessments and the teacher authority culture.This research underscores the importance of sustained feedback-based learning training for learners in a multiple-interaction environment.
multiple-interaction environmentengagement with written feedbackinfluencing factorsecological perspective