Publications

Publication details [#35956]

Cumming, Alister. 1989. Writing expertise and second-language proficiency. Language Learning 39 (1) : 81–141.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | second language acquisition | writing

Place, Publisher

The University of Michigan

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study assesses young adults' second language writing performance on several composition tasks in relation to both their writing expertise and their second language proficiency.