Dilin Liu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3823732 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dilin Liu |
| NOMBRES | Dilin |
| APELLIDO | Liu |
| FIRMA | LIU D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8290-3734 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Task repetition and orientation in L2 oral narratives
This study examined how task repetition (performing the same task across multiple occasions) and task orientation (directed attention to linguistic form vs. message content) shape L2 learners’ oral narrative performance. Learners’ output was evaluated using the communication, content, and function (CCF) framework, which captures how speakers structure information, express meanings, and organize discourse. Chinese undergraduate learners were rando…
Effects of using data-driven and generative AI-assisted instructions on learning multiword constructions in written academic English
With a pretest/posttest/delayed posttest design, this quasi-experimental study compares the effectiveness of corpus use versus generative AI (GenAI) use in helping undergraduate students learn multiword constructions (MWCs) in written academic English and examines the moderating effects of learners’ learning styles. Six intact writing classes with a total of 210 students were assigned to one of three instructional groups with each group including…
Second Language Acquisition of Contextual Emotion and Its Effects on Novel Word Learning From Reading Across Contexts
By manipulating lexical contextual emotion (positive vs. neutral vs.negative) and reading context (reading the same text repeatedly vs. reading different texts), this study examined whether Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) could acquire lexical contextual emotion (i.e., semantic prosody) associated with novel pseudowords. The study involved a reading‐and‐learning session followed by immediate and delayed posttests designed …
Introducing/Testing New SFL-Inspired Communication/Content/Function-Focused Measures for Assessing L2 Narrative Task Performance
In response to calls for an assessment tool that provides a separate performance dimension from the linguistic quality-oriented measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) and guided by systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theories, this study introduces a set of fine-grained objective measures of communication/content/function (CCF)-related performance in second language (L2) narratives and empirically tests the validity of these measure…
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance
Enhancing Verb‐Noun Collocation Learning among Chinese EFL Learners
This study investigates the effects of Cognitive Linguistics (CL)‐inspired, Generative AI (GenAI)‐assisted, and traditional instruction on Chinese EFL learners' knowledge and retention of English verb‐noun collocations. A quasi‐experiment was conducted involving three intact classes with a total of 133 second‐year college students randomly assigned to one of the three instructional treatments. Learners’ learning of verb‐noun collocations was asse…
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of Envy in English and Chinese
Adopting a multifactorial analysis, this corpus-based comparative study examines the metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in American English and Chinese. All the metaphorical occurrences of ENVY in the two languages were collected from the corpora and then submitted to a detailed semantic and usage analysis. The qualitative and quantitative analyses show both striking similarities and differences in the metaphorical structuring of ENVY across…
The effects of context, story-type, and language proficiency on EFL word learning and retention from reading
What factors may influence word learning from reading has long been a research topic of interest without definitive results. To contribute to the understanding of this important topic, this study, with the design of the same group of participating students with different proficiency levels and treated with different conditions, investigates the effects of context (reading the same story repeatedly vs. reading several different stories), story-typ…
The effectiveness of cognitive linguistics‐inspired language pedagogies
This systematic review synthesizes the literature (involving 62 empirical studies) regarding the effectiveness of cognitive linguistics‐inspired language pedagogies (CL‐ILPs) on second language (L2) learning. It begins with an overview of the main theoretical tenets of cognitive linguistics followed by a description of the data selection, coding, and analysis. Then, besides noting a sharp increase of research on CL‐ILPs in the past 20 years, the …
Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading
Via a 90-min classroom experiment, this study examined the effects of interactive reading on EFL students’ content and vocabulary learning. Specifically, two intact Chinese college EFL classes with the same level of English proficiency participated in this study. One was taught with a “read plus intra/inter-group discussion” (Read-Discuss) approach and the other was instructed with a traditional approach involving no student-student interaction. …
Cognitive linguistics-inspired language instruction
Second language acquisition (SLA) or second/foreign language teaching has been influenced to various degrees by key linguistic theories, including structural linguistics (Bloomfield, 1933; Saussure, 1959), generative linguistics (Chomsky, 1957, 1965), systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1973), and, more recently, contemporary Cognitive Linguistics (CL; Goldberg, 1995; Lakoff, 1987, 1993; Langacker, 1987, 1991; Talmy, 1988, 2000), a theory …
The nonuse of the definite article the in referencing definite nouns in research writing
The Effects of Over- and Under-Specified Linguistic Input on L2 Online Processing of Referring Expressions
Academic English verbs across disciplines
Using Davies's (2008-) Corpus of Contemporary American English's academic English section as data, this study investigates, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the cross-discipline usage patterns of the 554 verbs from Gardner and Davies's (2014) core Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). The results of a series of statistical analyses (e.g., Chi-square and cluster analysis) indicate that 41% of the verbs displayed a low dispersion across the discipl…
A multi-dimensional comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of association measures in collocation extraction
Because of the ubiquity and importance of collocations in language use/learning, how to effectively and efficiently identify collocations has been a topic of interest. Although some studies have evaluated many of the existing association measures (AMs) used in the automatic identification of collocations, the results so far have been inconsistent and unclear due to various limitations of the existing studies. Hence, this study makes a multi-dimen…
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis
This study tests the Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) that functional morphology presents the greatest difficulty in second language acquisition by examining Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ knowledge of both functional morphological properties and core syntactic properties across three language proficiency levels. Specifically, this study compares Chinese EFL learners’ grasp of subject–verb agreement (a functional morphological pr…
Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace
Calling for More Consistency, Refinement, and Critical Consideration in the Use of Syntactic Complexity Measures for Writing
In the past two decades, syntactic complexity measures (e.g. the length or number of words per clause/t-unit/sentences and number of clauses per t-unit/sentence, and types of clauses used) have been widely used to determine and benchmark language proficiency development in speaking and writing. (Norris and Ortega 2009; Lu 2011). However, the results of some recent studies (e.g. Lu 2011; Bulté and Housen 2014; Crossley and McNamara 2014) have rais…
Conceptual Metaphors and Image Schemas
Using the theoretical constructs of “image schema” and “conceptual metaphor,” this study examines the use and historical development of on track and off track as a pair of metaphorical idioms in American English. Specifically, this article is concerned with usage patterns and semantic changes of the expressions over the past two centuries in three American English corpora. We study the semantic features of the subject nouns as the “trajectors” an…
Evaluating popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China by applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework
By applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework and methodology (with a few methodological enhancements made), this study evaluated six popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China and produced some useful findings. First, Lew and Szarowska’s framework and methodology proved very successful in this study, demonstrating their viability in evaluating online bilingual dictionaries, although a few aspects where enhancements could …
Research Trends in Applied Linguistics from 2005 to 2016
Using data of articles from 42 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-indexed journals of applied linguistics, this study renders a bibliometric analysis of the 2005–16 research trends in the field. The analysis focuses on, among other issues, the most frequently discussed topics, the most highly cited publications, and the changes that have occurred in the research trends. The results show that while most of the frequently discussed topics have re…
The appeal to political sentiment
The academic English collocation list
The use of collocations plays an important role for the proficiency of ESL/EFL learners. Hence, educators and researchers have long tried to identify collocations typical of either academic or general English and the challenges involved in learning them. This paper proposes a comprehensive and type-balanced academic English collocation list (AECL). AECL is based on a large corpus of academic English and was created to cover the types of collocati…
The research trends and contributions of System's publications over the past four decades (1973–2017)
A new medical academic word list
The research trends and contributions of System's publications over the past four decades (1973–2017)
South Korean High School English Teachers' Code Switching
Dilin Liu, Gil-Soon Ahn, Kyung-Suk Baek, Nan-Ok Han, South Korean High School English Teachers' Code Switching: Questions and Challenges in the Drive for Maximal Use of English in Teaching, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 605-638
The Most Frequently Used English Phrasal Verbs in American and British English
This study uses the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus as data and Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, and Finegan's (1999) and Gardner and Davies' (2007) informative studies as a starting point and reference. The study offers a cross‐English variety and cross‐register examination of the use of English phrasal verbs (PVs), one of the most difficult aspects of English for learners of English as a foreign language …
The appeal to political sentiment
The academic English collocation list
The use of collocations plays an important role for the proficiency of ESL/EFL learners. Hence, educators and researchers have long tried to identify collocations typical of either academic or general English and the challenges involved in learning them. This paper proposes a comprehensive and type-balanced academic English collocation list (AECL). AECL is based on a large corpus of academic English and was created to cover the types of collocati…
Salience and construal in the use of synonymy
Via a corpus-based collocation analysis and a forced-choice questionnaire examination, this study investigates the use of two sets of near-synonymous nouns: authority/power/right and duty/obligation/responsibility . The corpus analysis reveals the prototypical meanings of the nouns in each set and the semantic and usage pattern differences among the synonymous nouns. Also, the corpus analysis and the results of the forced-choice study jointly sho…
Going Beyond Patterns
Since the late 1980s, collocations have received increasing attention in applied linguistics, especially language teaching, as is evidenced by the many publications on the topic. These works fall roughly into two lines of research (a) those focusing on the identification and use of collocations (Benson, 1989; Hunston, 2002; Hunston & Francis, 2000; Smadja & McKeown, 1991; Wouden, 1997) and (b) those focusing on the learning and teaching of colloc…
The Most Frequently Used Spoken American English Idioms
Most teaching and reference materials on English idioms are primarily intuition based. As such, they often include seldom-used idioms and incorrect descriptions of the meaning and use of some idioms, hence limiting their usefulness to ESOL students. This article demonstrates how this problem can be addressed through a corpus-based study of the spoken American English idioms used most frequently by college and other professional ESOL students lear…
Sociocultural transfer and its effect on second language Speakers' communication
Linking adverbials
Liking adverbials (LAs) play a very important role in discourse cohesion. This study examines the frequency and usage patterns of English LAs (110 in total) across five registers (Spoken English, Academic Writing, Fiction, News Writing, and Other writings) in the BNC. While the data analyses offer support for some previous research results, they also yield new findings regarding, among other things, variations in the adverbials’ frequency distrib…
A multi-dimensional comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of association measures in collocation extraction
Because of the ubiquity and importance of collocations in language use/learning, how to effectively and efficiently identify collocations has been a topic of interest. Although some studies have evaluated many of the existing association measures (AMs) used in the automatic identification of collocations, the results so far have been inconsistent and unclear due to various limitations of the existing studies. Hence, this study makes a multi-dimen…
Evaluating popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China by applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework
By applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework and methodology (with a few methodological enhancements made), this study evaluated six popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China and produced some useful findings. First, Lew and Szarowska’s framework and methodology proved very successful in this study, demonstrating their viability in evaluating online bilingual dictionaries, although a few aspects where enhancements could …
Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace
Is it a chief , main , major , primary , or principal concern
Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English as the source data and employing a corpus-based behavioral profile (BP) approach, this study examines the internal semantic structure of a set of five near-synonyms ( chief , main , major , primary , and principal ).1 By focusing on their distributional patterns, especially the typical types of nouns that they each modify, the study has identified several important fine-grained semantic and usage …
Acquisition of Culturally Loaded Words in EFL
Although vocabulary learning has begun to gain due attention in L2 acquisition research, studies have been scarce on 12 acquisition of culturally loaded words—those that are similar in primary meaning but different in connotation between LI and L2. This study attempts to determine empirically whether or not EFL students' understanding of culturally loaded words approximates that of native speakers of English, and how much English proficiency leve…
"Comments on B. Kumaravadivelu's "The Postmethod Condition
Dilin Liu, Comments on B. Kumaravadivelu's "The Postmethod Condition: (E)merging Strategies for Second/Foreign Language Teaching": "Alternative to" or "Addition to" Method?, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 174-177
Sociocultural transfer and its effect on second language Speakers' communication
Three strikes and you're out
A study of the use of football and baseball jargon in present-day American English
Acquisition of Culturally Loaded Words in EFL
Although vocabulary learning has begun to gain due attention in L2 acquisition research, studies have been scarce on 12 acquisition of culturally loaded words—those that are similar in primary meaning but different in connotation between LI and L2. This study attempts to determine empirically whether or not EFL students' understanding of culturally loaded words approximates that of native speakers of English, and how much English proficiency leve…
The Most Frequently Used Spoken American English Idioms
Most teaching and reference materials on English idioms are primarily intuition based. As such, they often include seldom-used idioms and incorrect descriptions of the meaning and use of some idioms, hence limiting their usefulness to ESOL students. This article demonstrates how this problem can be addressed through a corpus-based study of the spoken American English idioms used most frequently by college and other professional ESOL students lear…
South Korean High School English Teachers' Code Switching
Dilin Liu, Gil-Soon Ahn, Kyung-Suk Baek, Nan-Ok Han, South Korean High School English Teachers' Code Switching: Questions and Challenges in the Drive for Maximal Use of English in Teaching, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 605-638
Linking adverbials
Liking adverbials (LAs) play a very important role in discourse cohesion. This study examines the frequency and usage patterns of English LAs (110 in total) across five registers (Spoken English, Academic Writing, Fiction, News Writing, and Other writings) in the BNC. While the data analyses offer support for some previous research results, they also yield new findings regarding, among other things, variations in the adverbials’ frequency distrib…
Adequate language description in L2 research/teaching
Taking the example of ESL learners’ difficulties in resetting the pro‐drop parameter, this paper explores the need for L2 research and teaching to be based on sound linguistic data and description. First of all, it reviews key studies on the acquisition of non‐null arguments in English, focusing on the varying difficulties that speakers of different pro‐drop languages face in the acquisition process. Secondly, it examines some major English gramm…
Is it a chief , main , major , primary , or principal concern
Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English as the source data and employing a corpus-based behavioral profile (BP) approach, this study examines the internal semantic structure of a set of five near-synonyms ( chief , main , major , primary , and principal ).1 By focusing on their distributional patterns, especially the typical types of nouns that they each modify, the study has identified several important fine-grained semantic and usage …
Going Beyond Patterns
Since the late 1980s, collocations have received increasing attention in applied linguistics, especially language teaching, as is evidenced by the many publications on the topic. These works fall roughly into two lines of research (a) those focusing on the identification and use of collocations (Benson, 1989; Hunston, 2002; Hunston & Francis, 2000; Smadja & McKeown, 1991; Wouden, 1997) and (b) those focusing on the learning and teaching of colloc…
Making Grammar Instruction More Empowering
Despite a long debate and the accompanying call for changes in the past few decades, grammarinstruction in college English classes, according to some scholars, has remained largely “disempowering,” “decontextualized,” and “remedial” (Micciche, 2004, p. 718). To search for more effectiveand empowering grammar teaching, this study explores the use of corpora for problem-basedlearning/teaching of lexicogrammar in a college English grammar course. Th…
The Most Frequently Used English Phrasal Verbs in American and British English
This study uses the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus as data and Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, and Finegan's (1999) and Gardner and Davies' (2007) informative studies as a starting point and reference. The study offers a cross‐English variety and cross‐register examination of the use of English phrasal verbs (PVs), one of the most difficult aspects of English for learners of English as a foreign language …
Teaching Grammar
Grammar instruction has always been an important, albeit controversial, component in language teaching, especially second language (L2) teaching.
Actually , Genuinely , Really , and Truly
Using the 400+ million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) as data and a behavioral profile analysis approach, this study examines the semantic and usage differences among actually , genuinely , really , and truly , four near-synonymous adverbs notorious for their complex functional and syntactic usage patterns. In addition to examining the collocates of the adverbs (i.e. the common types of adjectives/verbs they each modify), the…
Salience and construal in the use of synonymy
Via a corpus-based collocation analysis and a forced-choice questionnaire examination, this study investigates the use of two sets of near-synonymous nouns: authority/power/right and duty/obligation/responsibility . The corpus analysis reveals the prototypical meanings of the nouns in each set and the semantic and usage pattern differences among the synonymous nouns. Also, the corpus analysis and the results of the forced-choice study jointly sho…
A new medical academic word list
L2 vs. L1 Use of Synonymy
Synonymy is important but difficult for language learners to grasp. Using a forced-choice question instrument, along with corpus data as reference, this study examines the use of four sets of synonyms by intermediate/advanced Chinese EFL/ESL learners and native English speakers. The data analyses reveal several key findings, including a general synonym acquisition trajectory. First, synonyms are often differentiated by their typical collocates; h…
The appeal to political sentiment
The academic English collocation list
The use of collocations plays an important role for the proficiency of ESL/EFL learners. Hence, educators and researchers have long tried to identify collocations typical of either academic or general English and the challenges involved in learning them. This paper proposes a comprehensive and type-balanced academic English collocation list (AECL). AECL is based on a large corpus of academic English and was created to cover the types of collocati…
The research trends and contributions of System's publications over the past four decades (1973–2017)
Research Trends in Applied Linguistics from 2005 to 2016
Using data of articles from 42 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-indexed journals of applied linguistics, this study renders a bibliometric analysis of the 2005–16 research trends in the field. The analysis focuses on, among other issues, the most frequently discussed topics, the most highly cited publications, and the changes that have occurred in the research trends. The results show that while most of the frequently discussed topics have re…
Conceptual Metaphors and Image Schemas
Using the theoretical constructs of “image schema” and “conceptual metaphor,” this study examines the use and historical development of on track and off track as a pair of metaphorical idioms in American English. Specifically, this article is concerned with usage patterns and semantic changes of the expressions over the past two centuries in three American English corpora. We study the semantic features of the subject nouns as the “trajectors” an…
Evaluating popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China by applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework
By applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework and methodology (with a few methodological enhancements made), this study evaluated six popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China and produced some useful findings. First, Lew and Szarowska’s framework and methodology proved very successful in this study, demonstrating their viability in evaluating online bilingual dictionaries, although a few aspects where enhancements could …
Calling for More Consistency, Refinement, and Critical Consideration in the Use of Syntactic Complexity Measures for Writing
In the past two decades, syntactic complexity measures (e.g. the length or number of words per clause/t-unit/sentences and number of clauses per t-unit/sentence, and types of clauses used) have been widely used to determine and benchmark language proficiency development in speaking and writing. (Norris and Ortega 2009; Lu 2011). However, the results of some recent studies (e.g. Lu 2011; Bulté and Housen 2014; Crossley and McNamara 2014) have rais…
Academic English verbs across disciplines
Using Davies's (2008-) Corpus of Contemporary American English's academic English section as data, this study investigates, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the cross-discipline usage patterns of the 554 verbs from Gardner and Davies's (2014) core Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). The results of a series of statistical analyses (e.g., Chi-square and cluster analysis) indicate that 41% of the verbs displayed a low dispersion across the discipl…
Linguistics (33 obras) · Psychology (30 obras) · Computer Science (27 obras) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (24 obras) · Natural language processing (15 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (14 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (14 obras) · Philosophy (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Mathematics education (11 obras)