Quality (philosophy)

Second language

Linguistics

Mathematics education

Process (computing)

Philosophy

Social psychology

Collaborative writing

Peer feedback

Operating system

Sociocultural evolution

Second language writing

Professional writing

Computer science

Conceptual framework

Anthropology

Empirical research

Psychology

Epistemology

Sociology

Sociocultural perspective

Artificial intelligence

Writing assessment

Interpersonal communication

Perspective (graphical)

Writing process

Corrective feedback

Social science

Assessing Writing

While the published literature has revealed the cognitive and sociocultural nature of feedback and feedback has been reconceptualized as a socially mediated activity that occurs in particular cultural, institutional, and interpersonal contexts, existing research on the impact and effectiveness of feedback in L2 writing has primarily focused on "text revisions" and "writing quality" and pays considerable attention to linguistic/textual aspects of student writing. The current overemphasis on what feedback practices could elicit positive text revisions ignores or at best marginalizes the complexity of feedback in shaping the overall landscape of writing learning and even personal development of L2 writers. Informed by theoretical and empirical feedback research in L2 writing and higher education, this paper proposes a multidimensional framework regarding the impact of L2 writing feedback distributing among three dimensions: writing, writing process, and writers. This conceptual framework captures and integrates the multiplexity of feedback impact in L2 writing. This paper calls for a more dynamic understanding of L2 writing feedback and its multifarious impact, and provides some implications for pedagogical applications and future research in writing assessment.

Reconceptualizing the impact of feedback in second language writing: A multidimensional perspective