WRITING EXPERTISE AND SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

By Alister H Cumming. 1989

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From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews (2013, background): “‘Expertise’ has been studied from the perspective of linguistic development [34], for example in the context of second-language acquisition [8, 36].”
Investigation of Writing Strategies, Writing Apprehension, and Writing Achievement among Saudi EFL-Major Students (2013, background): “…performed better in the language achievement assignment given to them (e.g. Hayes & Flower, 1983; Hayes, Flower, Shriver, Stratman, & Carey, 1987; Cumming, 1989; Sasaki, 2000; Graham & Perin, 2006; Anson, 2006; Kobayashi & Rinnert, 2008; Lei, 2008; Kırmızı, 2009, Erkan, & Saban, 2011; Mahnam, &…”
Discourse synthesis in integrated second language writing assessment (2009, background): “A number of studies of writing process have found that writers’ experience impacts their process, when reading is included (Cumming, 1989) and when it is not (Sasaki, 2000).”
Written Narratives as an Index of L2 Competence in Korean EFL Learners. (2005, background): “One way of examining discourse competence in the use of formal linguistic devices is proposed by Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) taxonomy of cohesive devices.”
Teaching and Researching Genre Knowledge: Toward an Enhanced Theoretical Framework (2020, background): “Language scholars have argued that there is underlying knowledge accessible across languages (Cumming, 1989, in press; Cummins, 1979; Gentil, 2011, 2018; Rinnert & Kobayashi, 2016).”
THE BEST OF TWO APPROACHES: PROCESS/ GENRE- BASED APPROACH TO TEACHING WRITING (2017, background): “Hence, as noted by researchers like Cumming (1998) and Matsuda (1999), L2 practitioners are still in search of a coherent, comprehensive theory of the teaching of writing.”
A Temporal Analysis of Formulation Processes in L1 and L2 Writing. (2001, background): “, rehearsing for compensatory reasons (Arndt, 1987; Raimes, 1985, 1987), translating (Cumming, 1989; Swain & Lapkin, 1995; Whalen, 1993; Whalen & Ménard, 1995), generating and assessing lexical alternatives (Bosher,1998; Cumming, 1989; Krings, 1994; Swain & Lapkin, 1995; Zimmermann, 2000), or feelin”
Toward an Empirical Model of EFL Writing Processes: An Exploratory Study (2000, methodology): “Furthermore, if writing expertise is a type of intelligence as Cumming (1989) speculated, we must expect a great amount of individual difference in its development in response to various types of instruction (Gardner, 1983).”
Written discourse development in CLIL at secondary school (2011, background): “There is agreement as to transfer of writing (and reading) ability from L1 to L2 (Cumming, 1994), but, as Manchón’s studies have shown (e.”
Japanese Learners' Self Revisions and Peer Revisions of Their Written Compositions in English. (2008, methodology): “Cumming (1990) and Swain and Lapkin have suggested that writers’ engagement in verbal and mental negotiations while they compose or revise texts may facilitate their L2 learning while they compose.”