 | Alister Cumming phone: (416) 978-0276 email: acumming@oise.utoronto.ca website: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cerll/FACULTY/CERLL_Faculty_Profiles/Alister_Cumming/index.html | |
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Academic History Ph.D., H.C. University of Copenhagen, English, Germanic and Romance Studies, 2009 Ph.D. University of Toronto, Education, 1988 M.A. University of British Columbia, English, 1979 B.A. University of British Columbia, English, 1975 Research Overview I am a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning and also the Head of the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies (CERLL). My research and courses focus on the learning, teaching, and assessment of writing in English as a second/foreign language, the evaluation of programs and curricula for second language education and immigrant settlement, and the development of assessment instruments and procedures in academic, professional and settlement contexts. I have written numerous books and articles on second-language education, language assessment, literacy, and international education policy. Teaching Overview The courses I usually teach are CTL 3013 Second-Language Assessment, CTL 3020 Writing in a Second Language, CTL 3807 Research Methods in Second Language Education, and CTL 3001 Research Colloquium in Second Language Education. In the autumn of 2011 I was a visiting fellow in the National Centre for Foreign Language Research at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. In March 2013 I was the Lansdowne Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria. Professional Activities Some of the roles I have recently had with professional associations include: Executive Director, Language Learning; A Journal of Research in Language Studies, University of Michigan, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (2006 to 2015) Chair of the TOEFL Committee of Examiners and member of its Research Sub-committee and of the TOEFL Board, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (2006 to 2011) Chair, Fund Raising Committee, Conference Organizing Committee for AILAs 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Madison, WI, July 2005 subject specialist, Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation and Vocational Qualifications (since 2001) affiliated member, Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), Toronto (since 2001) Representative Publications RECENT BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Ortega, L., Cumming, A. & Ellis, N. (Eds.) (2013). Agendas for language learning research. Supplement 1 to Language Learning 63. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00734.x/full Cumming, A. (Ed.) (2012). Adolescent literacies in a multicultural context. New York: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415898904/ Leki, I., Cumming, A., & Silva, T. (2008). A synthesis of research on second language writing in English. New York: Routledge.http://www.academia.edu/2039019/Review_A_synthesis_of_research_on_second_language_writing_in_English Cumming, A. & Laurier, M. (Eds.). (2007). Language assessment, special issue of the Canadian Modern Language Review, 64, 1.http://www.utpjournals.com/Language-Assessment.html Cumming, A. (Ed.). (2006). Goals for academic writing: ESL students and their instructors. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LL%26LT%2015 Cumming, A., Kantor, R., Baba, K., Eouanzoui, K., Erdosy, U., & James, M. (2006). Analysis of discourse features and verification of scoring levels for independent and integrated prototype tasks for the new TOEFL. TOEFL Monograph Series, Report No. 30. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.http://www.ets.org/research/policy_research_reports/rr-05-13_toefl-ms-30 Research Grants and Contracts My recent research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, investigated the development of literacy among adolescents at an after-school tutoring program in downtown Toronto. The project, Adolescent Literacy in Three Urban Regions, involved collaborations in Toronto with Pathways to Education Canada, in Amsterdam with colleagues at the University of Amsterdam, and in Geneva with colleagues at the University of Geneva and the Educational Research Services of the Canton of Geneva. A current project involves comparative case studies of knowledge construction, professional identity development, activity systems and engagement in written discourse among (a) students writing course papers in a TESOL Certificate program and (b) reflexively, myself and three PhD research assistants conducting and reporting on that research. Honours and Awards I received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 2009; a Japan Science Foundation Research Fellowship at Nagoya University in 2006; a University of Auckland Visiting Research Fellowship in 1999; and the R.B. Jackson Award from the Canadian Educational Researchers' Association for the best article appearing in the Canadian Journal of Education for Cumming, Mackay & Sakyi (1994). Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Alister_Cumming_CV.pdf Applied Linguistics, Second Language Education & Multilingualism |
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