“…In the learning-to-write process, students expect teachers to offer them feedback and teachers do take feedback provision as one of the significant pedagogical procedures in teaching writing (Li et al, 2020 ; Teng and Zhang, 2020 , 2021 ; Zhang and Zhang, 2020 ; Cheng and Zhang, 2021a , b ). Feedback can be offered to students at the global or local levels depending on the learning task expected to be completed (Chen and Zhang, 2017 ; Rahimi and Zhang, 2021 ; Zhang et al, 2021 ). Embedded in the pedagogical contexts, feedback functions to facilitate students' learning process and improve their learning outcomes (Sadler, 1989 ; Hattie and Timperley, 2007 ; Zhang, 2018 ; Gan et al, 2021 ).…”