Alia Moser - Written Corrective Feedback: The Role of Learner Engagement: A Practical Approach

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Written corrective feedback has always been an important part of my teaching, especially a need to understand why learners engage with written CF, which has led me to conduct a small-scale study in order to investigate mediating factors impacting on learners engagement with written CF. The English Department at Graz University, especially, plays an important role in this respect, and I have to thank Margit Reitbauer for being a superb supervisor during my studies and the writing of the book at hand. Her views on the respective chapters of it and the advice she provided, guided me in my quest for getting to the bottom of learner engagement with written CF.

Teaching at school and writing a book at the same time has been rather challenging, hence I must acknowledge the administration of my school, who permitted me to conduct my study with my former students. Additionally, I also want to thank those colleagues at school that showed genuine interest in my research and encouraged me along the way.

What would I do without my family? Education has always been very important for all of us and my family is one of the reasons that I could study at Graz University and teach at various institutions abroad. Knowing that they are interested in what I am doing and they always asking how I was getting on helped me through the ups and downs while writing. I want to thank them all for believing in me.

My partner, Christian Kostial, for being there every day and encouraging me to commence this endeavour of writing a book while teaching full-time. He had to endure me constantly talking about written CF and learner engagement, but never got tired of listening to me. Not only did he support me all the way to the finish line, he also gave me valuable feedback as well. I cannot have met a better person to share my life with.

Finally, I am especially grateful to all my students past and present, who challenge and encourage me to continually make adjustments to my teaching practice. I dedicate this book to those twelve students that took part in my pilot study as well as the actual study. Without their honesty, curiosity and willingness to share their opinions on written CF with me, this book would never have been possible.