Alister Cumming

Alister Cumming publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alister Cumming sits on this spectrum.

Alister Cumming D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alister Cumming sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Writing Expertise and Second‐Language Proficiency*

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• A Synthesis of Research on Second Language Writing in English

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• Differences in written discourse in independent and integrated prototype tasks for next generation TOEFL

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• Expertise in evaluating second language compositions

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• Metalinguistic and Ideational Thinking in Second Language Composing

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• Decision Making while Rating ESL/EFL Writing Tasks: A Descriptive Framework

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  229
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• Students' writing from sources for academic purposes: A synthesis of recent research

  Alister Cumming;Alister Cumming;Conttia Lai;Hyeyoon Cho

  217
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• LEARNING TO WRITE IN A SECOND LANGUAGE: TWO DECADES OF RESEARCH

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• Assessing Integrated Writing Tasks for Academic Purposes: Promises and Perils

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• What’s in a ZPD? A case study of a young ESL student and teacher interacting through dialogue journals

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• Validation in Language Testing

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  123
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• Second Language Acquisition: Foreign Language Learning

  Bill VanPatten;James F. Lee

  113
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• Theoretical Perspectives on Writing

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  109
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• Writing Strategies in Japanese as a Foreign Language: Lowering or Keeping up the Standards

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• Building models of adult second-language writing instruction

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• Alternatives in TESOL Research: Descriptive, Interpretive, and Ideological Orientations

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• A teacher-verification study of speaking and writing prototype tasks for a new TOEFL

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  93
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• Goals for Academic Writing

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• Reading and summarizing challenging texts in first and second languages

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• Tutoring second language text revision: Does the approach to instruction or the language of communication make a difference?

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