An Overview of Student Engagement With Written Feedback in EFL Writing Class

Student engagement with written feedback plays an essential role in EFL writing classes.This topic has drawn the growing attention of many researchers as well as instructors teaching English writing worldwide.The current study was conducted to summarize the main aspects relating to student engagement with written feedback.Based on referring to previous research, the current research findings indicated that various studies focused on how students engaged affectively, cognitively, and behaviorally with feedback activity.Moreover, few studies employed data collection instruments for quantitative analysis in terms of data collection instruments.Instead, they paid more attention to qualitative data instruments such as interviews, students' written texts, teacher and peer written feedback, retrospective protocols, etc.Also, the studies are mainly based on feedback receivers' perspectives.Many researchers frequently chose a small sample size.Therefore, further studies in different contexts with the use of data collection instruments for quantitative and qualitative data, different perspectives of feedback receivers and givers, sample size, factors affecting student engagement, and a longer period of time are recommended to be conducted for deeper understandings of student engagement with types of written feedback in English writing class.