Directives in ELF Peer Feedback

Feedback is a central element in many areas of education: Teachers may, for instance, give feedback to their students to improve their language or writing skills, students may give each other peer feedback on their course work, and teacher trainers may provide feedback to future teachers for them to improve their own teaching skills. Feedback has been studied from a variety of perspectives, including ethnographic (didactic) and speech act (language) perspectives. Ethnographic perspectives aim to provide insights into the social and didactic dimensions of peer feedback by highlighting the power structure and institutional roles of the participants as well as other contextual or social factors that can infuence the feedback process [...]