Language feedback responses, voices and identity (re)construction: Experiences of Chinese international doctoral students

We draw on Bakhtin’s dialogic construct of ‘double-voicedness’ to explore Chinese international doctoral students’ responses to their non-Chinese supervisors’ language feedback and their reasoning of the responses. Results show that the students respond to supervisors’ language feedback in four ways: no revision, faithful revision, extended revision and self-initiated revision. Through negotiations with culturally differentiated voices, the...