Daniel H. Dixon
@danielhdixon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University
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Our Department was featured in the local news! Way to go Youngmeen and Ute! www.11alive.com/article/tech...
Georgia State study uses AI to better spot depression
The study sorted and sifted through thousands of posts on the popular social media platform Reddit
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December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Our Department was featured in the local news! Way to go Youngmeen and Ute! www.11alive.com/article/tech...
Friday Dec. 5 9:00-10:00am: The Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL is hosting a virtual open house for those interested in our Ph.D. Program! RSVP here: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
Virtual Information Session RSVP
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December 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Friday Dec. 5 9:00-10:00am: The Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL is hosting a virtual open house for those interested in our Ph.D. Program! RSVP here: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
Looking forward to speaking with CATESOL tomorrow about compiling corpora from video games and its use in applied linguistics research! mms.catesol.org/Calendar/mor...
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Looking forward to speaking with CATESOL tomorrow about compiling corpora from video games and its use in applied linguistics research! mms.catesol.org/Calendar/mor...
I'm excited to share that one of our PhD students, Soyeon Sim, (Applied Linguistics, GSU) published an excellent paper investigating GenAI as an second language tool (published in TESOL Quarterly)! Congrats Soyeon and colleagues!
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Exploring Generative AI as a Roleplay Interlocutor in L2 Task‐Based Pragmatics Learning: Comparing ChatGPT‐Learner and Technology‐Mediated Peer Interactions
This study compared task-based interaction with ChatGPT and peer interaction in the effectiveness of learning L2 speech acts (requests and refusals) and explored L2 learners' perceptions towards task...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm excited to share that one of our PhD students, Soyeon Sim, (Applied Linguistics, GSU) published an excellent paper investigating GenAI as an second language tool (published in TESOL Quarterly)! Congrats Soyeon and colleagues!
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New publication on GenAI, videogames, and L2 learning co-authored with 4th-year GSU Ph.D. Student Yiwen Zheng: "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Game-Based Language Learning and Teaching"
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and DGBLLT
Digital games have relied on forms of artificial intelligence (AI) since the industry began in the 1970s. The AI used in early games, like those made for the Atari 2600, primarily drew on rule-based s...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
New publication on GenAI, videogames, and L2 learning co-authored with 4th-year GSU Ph.D. Student Yiwen Zheng: "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Game-Based Language Learning and Teaching"
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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We are grateful for the support for our GenAI Project titled "ReaL2Chat" from World Languages 360!
World Languages 360 is proud to announce 12 projects we have been able to fund in our current cycle. These grants encompass our AI Grants, World Languages 360 – Extempore Grants, and a new pilot program with Pangea Chat. We invite you to visit worldlanguages360.org and view the latest 2 posts.
World Languages 360, Inc.
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June 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We are grateful for the support for our GenAI Project titled "ReaL2Chat" from World Languages 360!
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World Languages 360 is proud to announce 12 projects we have been able to fund in our current cycle. These grants encompass our AI Grants, World Languages 360 – Extempore Grants, and a new pilot program with Pangea Chat. We invite you to visit worldlanguages360.org and view the latest 2 posts.
World Languages 360, Inc.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
World Languages 360 is proud to announce 12 projects we have been able to fund in our current cycle. These grants encompass our AI Grants, World Languages 360 – Extempore Grants, and a new pilot program with Pangea Chat. We invite you to visit worldlanguages360.org and view the latest 2 posts.
I am excited about sharing our recent research with the Korea Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning (KAMALL) this coming Friday!
June 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I am excited about sharing our recent research with the Korea Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning (KAMALL) this coming Friday!
Heading to CALICO 2025!
May 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Heading to CALICO 2025!
I had a great time celebrating with our M.A. Graduates at the 2025 Graduation Ceremony at Georgia State University! Congratulations Class of 2025!
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I had a great time celebrating with our M.A. Graduates at the 2025 Graduation Ceremony at Georgia State University! Congratulations Class of 2025!
We're holding on online open house for those interested in an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University, Feb 19 9:30am (EST). Register here: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
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February 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We're holding on online open house for those interested in an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University, Feb 19 9:30am (EST). Register here: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
Reposted by Daniel H. Dixon
Meet the Vocabulary List Generator (VLG), a free digital tool that can be easily used by practitioners and researchers to create vocabulary lists. The VLG takes into account frequency together with the latest dispersion measures.
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January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Meet the Vocabulary List Generator (VLG), a free digital tool that can be easily used by practitioners and researchers to create vocabulary lists. The VLG takes into account frequency together with the latest dispersion measures.
doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...
doi.org/10.1016/j.rm...
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It incorporates the dispersion measures recommended by Egbert and Burch (2023): evenness and pervasiveness. While pervasiveness is incorporated in other publicly available digital tools in the form of range measures, evenness has yet to make its way to such tools, which is why we developed the VLG.
January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It incorporates the dispersion measures recommended by Egbert and Burch (2023): evenness and pervasiveness. While pervasiveness is incorporated in other publicly available digital tools in the form of range measures, evenness has yet to make its way to such tools, which is why we developed the VLG.
Reposted by Daniel H. Dixon
It was great working on this with my wonderful GSU colleagues Ashleigh Cox and @danielhdixon.bsky.social. We hope you all put the VLG to good use and let us know what features would be good to include in future versions of the tool.
January 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It was great working on this with my wonderful GSU colleagues Ashleigh Cox and @danielhdixon.bsky.social. We hope you all put the VLG to good use and let us know what features would be good to include in future versions of the tool.
Snow in Atlanta!
January 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Snow in Atlanta!
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
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Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
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November 27, 2024 at 4:05 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
uclouvain.be/en/research-...
uclouvain.be/en/research-...
Are you interested in our Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics? We invite you to chat with faculty and current students to ask questions and learn more. RSVP using the link below and join us on Thursday Dec. 5 from 9:30 to 10:30 (Eastern Time)!
***RSVP: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
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Virtual Information Session RSVP - College of Arts & Sciences
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November 18, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Are you interested in our Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics? We invite you to chat with faculty and current students to ask questions and learn more. RSVP using the link below and join us on Thursday Dec. 5 from 9:30 to 10:30 (Eastern Time)!
***RSVP: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
***RSVP: cas.gsu.edu/graduate-ser...
Georgia State University is hiring a TT Assistant Professor for Fall 2025 with expertise in psycholinguistics or a related field. Please share this job post: facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/4847
Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics
The Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University invites applications for a full-time, 10-month tenure-track position at the rank of Assist...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Georgia State University is hiring a TT Assistant Professor for Fall 2025 with expertise in psycholinguistics or a related field. Please share this job post: facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/4847