The Effectiveness of Teacher Feedback in ESL Composition : How to Improve It and How to Fully Internalize It

This paper reviews teacher feedback to student writing in ESL composition. I will start by introducing Vivian Zamel\u27s article (1985), which triggered the active movement of feedback research (section 1), then focus on the nature of teacher feedback and how students receive it (section 2), later I will address some studies which investigated the effectiveness of teacher feedback (section 3), and finally suggest how the teachers can improve their feedback and how students can make the most of it (section 4)