Academic emotions in written corrective feedback situations

Although written corrective feedback (WCF) is often believed to evoke negative emotions, empirical studies on L2 students' affective reactions to this teaching and learning device are still lacking. Informed by research on academic emotions (Pekrun, 2006; Pekrun & Linnenbrink-Garcia, 2012), the paper reports on two case studies investigating Chinese university EFL students' emotional reactions to teacher WCF. Self-report data collected from...