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ELT Journal Advance Access published online on March 7, 2008
ELT Journal, doi:10.1093/elt/ccn010
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved.

Ten mismatches between teachers' beliefs and written feedback practice

Icy Lee

Icy Lee is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Second Language Writing, Assessing Writing, Canadian Modern Language Review, System, and other publications. Her main research interests include ESL writing and ESL teacher education

Email: icylee{at}cuhk.edu.hk


  Abstract

Research on teachers' beliefs has demonstrated that beliefs have an important impact on teachers' practice. In teacher feedback research, however, not much is known about teachers' beliefs and the extent to which they influence practice. This article reports on the findings from a study that investigated teachers' beliefs and practice in written feedback from two sources: (1) feedback analysis based on 174 texts collected from 26 teachers and follow-up interviews with seven of them; (2) a survey comprising a questionnaire administered to 206 secondary teachers and follow-up interviews with 19 of them. While the first data source investigated teachers' actual written feedback, the second source focused on teachers' beliefs and reported practice, both followed up by interviews that probed teachers' beliefs and practice. The article presents the salient findings in terms of ten mismatches between teacher beliefs and practice in written feedback and concludes with implications arising from the study.

Final revised version received August 2007


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