Feedback literacy for EFL speaking among first- and second-year Chinese English majors: structural associations and reported action strategies
Yan Zhang, Jinyan Huang, Jai Kumar · 2026
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Using feedback well is a skill: students must value it, judge their own work, handle the sting, and act. Yan Zhang and two co-authors measured that skill in 2026 among 2,116 Chinese English majors in their first two years, focusing on speaking. Surveys, open answers, and talks with eighteen teachers fed the study.
All four parts of the skill moved together strongly, so strongly that they blurred into one another in the tests. Students said targeted practice, self checks, and kind, usable comments helped most, and teachers echoed those themes. The model forecast new cases only weakly. The authors read the skill as one woven whole rather than a ladder of stages, and urge care in how it is measured.
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| CREATOR | Yan Zhang, Jinyan Huang, Jai Kumar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |