Faculty & Staff : Dilin Liu

Dilin Liu teaches applied linguistics/TESOL and coordinates the Applied Linguistics/TESOL program. He received his Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University. Before joining the faculty at UA in 2006, he taught and directed the TESOL program at Oklahoma City University for 15 years. His research interests include corpus linguistics, grammar, lexis, pedagogy, and sociolinguistics. Liu has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of English Language Teaching Journal (2001-2004), TESOL Quarterly (2005-2008), Reflections on English Language Teaching (2006-), and TESOL Journal (2009-2013). He has also served on the Fulbright National Screening Committee in charge of selecting English Language Teaching candidates. He is also a curriculum advisor for the Walt Disney's "Disney English" Language Teaching program.  

Books Authored

Idioms: Description, Comprehension, Acquisition, and Pedagogy. London/New York: Rudledge, 2007.

Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview: The Case of American English and the Chinese Language. Lanham, Maryland: 0niversity Press of America. (2002)

Books Edited

Grammar Teaching in Teacher Education. Alexandria, with Peter Master, VA: TESOL, Inc. 2003. (With Peter Master)

Journal Articles

"Going beyond patterns: Involving cognitive analysis in the learning of collocations." TESOL Quarterly (in press, to appear in 2010).

"Using a corpus-based lexicogrammatical approach to grammar instruction in EFL and ESL contexts." Modern Language Journal, 93.1 (2009), 61-78.

"Linking adverbials: An across-register corpus study and its implications."  International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13(4) (2008), 491-518.

"Intransitive or object-deleting: Classifying English verbs used without an object." Journal of English Linguistics, 36.4 (2008), 287-313.

"Adequate language description in L2 research/teaching: The case of L1 null subject/object L1speakers learning English." International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 18.3 (2008), 274-292.

"Plagiarism in ESOL students: Is cultural-conditioning truly the major culprit?"English Language Teaching Journal, 58 (2005), 234-241.

"South Korean high school English teachers’ code-switching: Questions and challenges in the drive for maximal use of English in teaching", TESOL Quarterly, 38 (2004), 605-638. (as the first/ primary author with G. Anh and K. Baek as second and third authors)

"The most frequently used spoken American English idioms: A corpus analysis and its implications."TESOL Quarterly, 37 (2003), 671-700.

"The acquisition of the article the by nonnative speakers of English: An analysis of four nongeneric uses."Studies in Second language Acquisition, 24 (2002), 1-26.(as the first/primary author with G. Gleason as the second author)

"Writing cohesion: Using content lexical ties in ESOL."English Teaching Forum, 38.1 (2000), 28-33.

"Multiple-site practicum: Opportunities for diverse learning and teaching experiences."TESOL Journal, 9.1(2000), 18-22.

"'Hitting singles' and 'scoring runs': Sports metaphor in American English and American life as sports." Alpha Vision: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Higher Education, 1, 10-16.

"Acquisition of culturally-loaded words in EFL." Foreign Language Annuals 32.3 (1999), 177-187.(as the first/primary author with S. Zhong as the second author).

"Ethnocentrism in TESOL: Teacher education and the neglected needs of international TESOL students."The English Language Teaching Journal, 52(1998), 3-10.

"Three strikes and 'you're out': A study of the use of football and baseball jargon in present-day American English."English Today: An International Review of the English Language, 12.1 (1996), 7-11. (as the first/primary author with B. Farha as the second author)

"Sociocultural Transfer: Its Effects on L2 Speakers' Communication."International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 19 (1995), 253-265.

"'Alternative to' or 'addition to' methods? Comments on B. Kumaravadicelu's The postmethod condition: (E)merging strategies for second/foreign language teaching.'"TESOL Quarterly, 29(1995), 174-177.

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find: The Difference between the Word and the World."Short Story, 2.2(1992), 63-75.

"Emelye, Constance, Griselda, and Dorigen: Chaucer's Treatment of Women."Midland Review, 8 (1992), 111-120.

"On Sexism in the Chinese Language."Shijia ribao zoukan [World Journal Weekly], October 14, 1993) p. S2. (In Chinese).

Book Chapters and Articles in proceedings

"Grammar teaching." In L. Ortega (Ed.), Language Teaching and Learning, a volume of Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (General Editor C. A. Chapelle), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming).

“Using Corpora for language learning, teaching, and research.” In A. Mahboob (ed.). Professional Development Resources for Non-native speaker teachers. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Inc. (forth coming).

"Lexis, grammar, context, and the use of corpora: An integrated approach." In Y. Leung & H. Chan (eds.) Selected papers from the seventeenth international symposium on English teaching (pp. 46-56). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishers.

"Critical and innovative approaches to grammar teaching" in D. Liu and P. Master (eds.) Grammar teaching in teacher education (pp. 1-8). Alexandria, VA: TESOL. Inc. (2003)

"From Rosalynde to As You Like It: Shakespeare's Celebration of Blood Order."R. F. Willson (Series Ed.) and P. Rollins and A. Smith (Vol. Eds.). Studies in Shakespeare: Vol. 12. Shakespeare's theory of blood, character, and class: A festschrift in honor of David Shelley Berkeley. (pp. 61-76). New York: Peter Lang. (2001)

"Training non-native speaker TESOL students: The challenges for TESOL teacher education in the West." In G. Braine (Ed.). Non-native educators in English language teaching (pp. 197-210). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaun. (1999)

"The pride of zuguo: China's perennial appeal to the overseas Chinese and an emergent civic discourse in a global community." R. Kluver and J. Powers (Eds.). Civic discourse, Civic Society, and Chinese Communities (pp. 209-220). Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing Co. (1999)