Utility of focused/comprehensive written corrective feedback research for authentic L2 writing classrooms

The debate on written corrective feedback (WCF) sparked by Truscott (1996) has spawned a growing literature on focused/comprehensive WCF (i.e. feedback scope) in L2 writing. Such research, being largely experimental/quasi-experimental, has generated findings that are tangentially relevant to authentic classrooms. This article attempts to problematize existing feedback scope research by examining three key issues – ambiguity of pertinent terms,...