Silently Correcting Your Grammar
Adult Learners’ Experiences with Feedback at a Rural Two-Year College
Silently Correcting Your Grammar
Adult Learners’ Experiences with Feedback at a Rural Two-Year College
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Description
Silently Correcting Your Grammar examines what grammar feedback does-and means-for adult learners in higher education.
Drawing on a phenomenological study of thirty rurally situated community college students enrolled in first-year writing, the book reveals a complex emotional terrain around sentence-level correction that defies prevailing scholarly narratives of harm.
Jessica Kubiak illustrates how learners classify, interpret, and emotionally negotiate instructor feedback-even when they lack shared linguistic terminology to talk about it. This analysis leads to the concept of adult learners' rural writing ecosystems, expansive networks of influences that include family, workplaces, past schooling, digital tools, and community relationships, all of which mediate the impact of instructor feedback.
By illuminating what learners actually want from feedback, how they process it, and why they often desire more engagement from instructors, the book calls for a more ethically responsive, emotionally attuned, and community-connected vision of writing instruction.
Table of Contents
1. Dealing With Error
2. Language and Identity
3. Adult Literacy
4. “A Couple of Small Grammar Things”: Classifying Feedback
5. “I Know How to Handle It”: Emotional Associations with Corrective Feedback
6. “It Doesn't Translate Well”: Adult Learners' Writing Ecosystems and First-Year Writing
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Product details
| Published | May 13 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9798216480105 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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