Specifikt studeras hur vuxna elevers engagemang och studieteknik påverkas av två olika metoder för återkoppling. Studien är ett aktionsforskningsprojekt, som tar sin utgångspunkt i en pågående praktik, där läraren under flera år har utvecklat och testat olika metoder för återkoppling.

This article explores six adult immigrant students’ multimodal text production in everyday and learning situations. The students are between 25 and 55 years and attend adult education in Norway, they have little or no previous schooling and little experience with alphabetic texts.

The article contributes knowledge about functional aspects of adult second-language students working with writing feedback and argumentative texts. It was conducted in basic adult education, which is underrepresented in writing pedagogy research. The material consists of recorded feedback discussions in small groups and the student texts the discussions were based on.