There has been much research detailing how English
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The gap
While there has been much research detailing how English as a foreign language (EFL) students attending English for academic purposes (EAP) courses struggle with a wide array of challenges when adjusting to university English-medium instruc
Evidence profile
Sourced from the abstract and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2020 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 22 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Feedback behaviour and preference in university academic English courses: associations with English language self-efficacy (2020) · Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education · cited 22× · doi
While there has been much research detailing how English as a foreign language (EFL) students attending English for academic purposes (EAP) courses struggle with a wide array of challenges when adjusting to university English-medium instruction, how these students use feedback to self-regulate their academic English learning and what contributes to or hinders this remain unknown.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: english students academic there detailing foreign language attending purposes courses struggle wide array challenges adjusting - フィードバックによる学術的社会化―EAP授業における教師のポスト・パフォーマンスフィードバックの会話分析 Socializing Students into Academics Through Feedback—Conversation Analysis of Teacher’s Post-performance Feedback to EAP Classroom Presentation (2022) · JALT Journal · doi
Future studies should examine a variety of teachers’ post-performance feedback practices in EAP or ESP (English for Specific Purposes) classrooms so that a knowledge base of pedagogically meaningful feedback practices is developed and made available for the language teachers today to rely on when they teach classes where the educational focus is not only the linguistic aspects of the target language, but the content or academic/professional competencies.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: teachers feedback practices language future examine variety post performance english specific purposes classrooms knowledge base - Creencias y prácticas del alumnado del Grado de Educación Primaria sobre la retroalimentación correctiva escrita (2026) · Contextos Educativos Revista de Educación · doi
Future research should explore the beliefs and practices of future teachers regarding written corrective feedback in different contexts. Future research should investigate the impact of specific training on written corrective feedback on the beliefs and practices of future teachers. Future research should analyze the relationship between the beliefs and practices of future teachers and student outcomes.
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: future research explore beliefs practices teachers regarding written
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