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English Language Final Year Topic: English Feedback Comments and Student Revision Decisions

This English Language final year project investigates how the wording of feedback relates to students' reported revision decisions, drawing on consented anonymised draft-feedback-revision sets and brief adult interviews. The analysis focuses on language in its communicative context.

Why choose this project topic?

An examination of how the wording of feedback relates to students' reported revision decisions produces a manageable language question with observable evidence. It lets you connect English-language concepts to particular communicative choices instead of making unsupported judgments about speakers.

What patterns emerge in how the wording of feedback relates to students' reported revision decisions within consented anonymised draft-feedback-revision sets and brief adult interviews?

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Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Identify the linguistic forms involved in how the wording of feedback relates to students' reported revision decisions.
  2. 02Compile a documented and ethically accessible dataset from consented anonymised draft-feedback-revision sets and brief adult interviews.
  3. 03Classify directive and indirect comments, trace corresponding revisions and compare students' explanations.

A suggested research approach

Agree access and selection criteria for consented anonymised draft-feedback-revision sets and brief adult interviews. Classify directive and indirect comments, trace corresponding revisions and compare students' explanations. Pilot the annotation scheme, retain examples that challenge initial categories and report disagreements. Obtain institutional approval and informed consent before collecting participant data.

What you will need

  • Permitted access to consented anonymised draft-feedback-revision sets and brief adult interviews
  • An annotation guide covering how the wording of feedback relates to students' reported revision decisions
  • A secure anonymisation procedure and any required ethics approval

Keep your project scope clear

Observed associations cannot isolate feedback wording from motivation, time or prior instruction.

English Language project chapter outline

Use this outline as a starting point. You can edit the chapter titles to match your department’s format during setup.

  1. Chapter 1Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review
  3. Chapter 3Research Methodology
  4. Chapter 4Data Presentation, Analysis and Discussion of Findings
  5. Chapter 5Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

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