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Written Feedback on ESL Student Writers’ Academic Essays
Kelly Tee Pei Leng1*#, Vijay Kumar2 and Mardziah Hayati Abdullah1
1Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
2Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, 65/75 Union Place West, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
ABSTRACT
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INTRODUCTION
Feedback is essential in the development RIDZULWHU+\ODQG +\ODQG +RZHYHULWZDVQRWXQWLOWKHHPHUJHQFHRI the writing process movement during the VWKDWJUHDWHULPSRUWDQFHZDVSODFHGRQ UHYLVLRQDQGIHHGEDFN5HVHDUFKHUVVXFKDV (PLJDQG)ORZHUDQG+D\HV shed new light on writing as a procedure in which the focus is on the actual processes
