Tulay Dixon
Assistant Teaching Professor of QTM & Linguistics
Education
PhD| Northern Arizona University| 2022
MA| University of Utah| 2014
BA| Middle East Technical University| 2012
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Larsson, T., Callies, M., Dixon, T, Hasselgård, H., Hober, N., Laso, N. J., Van Vuuren, S., Verdaguer, I., & Paquot, M. (Forthcoming). Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Cox, A., Dixon, D. H., & Dixon, T. (2025). Vocabulary List Generator: A digital tool to generate frequency-based word lists adjusted for dispersion. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2025.100180
Goulart, L., & Dixon, T. (2025). The relative influence of language backgrounds, communicative text types, and disciplines in undergraduate student writing. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. 11(1), 178–216. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.23028.gou
Dixon, T., & Dixon, D. H. (2024). A simple methodology for identifying speech act tendencies: A case study of e-mail refusals. Applied Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1075/ap.21011.dix
Dixon, T., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., & Hanks, E. (2023). Toward an empirical understanding of formality: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions. English for Specific Purposes, 71, 161–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2023.04.006
Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Dixon, T., & Egbert, J. (2023). Examining novice writers’ perceptions of formality. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 44(1), 29–55. https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.22010.lar
Hober, N., Dixon, T., & Larsson, T. (2023). Toward increased reliability and transparency in projects with manual linguistic coding. Corpora, 18(2), 245–258. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2023.0284
Larsson, T., Reppen, R., & Dixon, T. (2022). A phraseological study of highlighting strategies in novice and expert writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2022.101179
Dixon, T. (2022). Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis. English for Specific Purposes, 65, 63–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2021.09.003
Dixon, D. H., Dixon, T., & Jordan, E. (2022). Second language (L2) gains through digital game-based language learning (DGBLL): A meta-analysis. Language Learning & Technology, 26(1), 1–25. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/73464
Dixon, T., Christison, M. A., Dixon, D. H., & Palmer, A. S. (2021). A meta-analysis of hybrid language instruction and call for future research. The Modern Language Journal, 105(4), 792–809. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12732
Krulatz, A., & Dixon, T. (2020). The use of refusal strategies in interlanguage speech act performance of Korean and Norwegian users of English. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 10(4), 751–777. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2020.10.4.5
BOOK AND ENCYCLOPEDIA CHAPTERS
Larsson, T., & Dixon, T. (2025). Corpus representativeness in data-driven learning. In L. McCallum & D. Tafazoli, D. (Eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer Assisted Language Learning. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_154-1
Dixon, T., & Dixon, D. H. (2022). Tell me what your collocates are and I will tell you who you are. In V. Viana (Ed.) Teaching English with corpora: A resource book. Routledge
Dixon, T., & Christison, M. A. (2021). Teaching English grammar in a hybrid academic ESL course: A mixed methods study. In J. Perren, K. Kelch, J-S. Byun, S. Cervantes, & S. Safavi (Eds.), CALL Theory Applications for Online TESOL Education (2nd ed.). IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6609-1.ch010
Dixon, T. (2018). Teaching pronunciation in integrated skills classes. In M. A. Christison & C. Broady (Eds.) Teaching Speaking and Pronunciation (Volume 3) The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0691
OTHER PUBLICATIONS(MONOGRAPHS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, BOOK REVIEWS, SHORT REPORTS, DATA ANALYSIS INSTRUMENTS)
Larsson, T., Callies, M., Dixon, T., Hasselgård, H., Hober, N., Laso, N. J., Van Vuuren, S., Verdaguer, I., & Paquot, M. (2024). Adverb placement coding scheme. Coding and analysis protocols from “Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors” [Text/Analyses]. IRIS Database, University of York, UK. https://doi.org/10.48316/uGLa1-KyTtD
Dixon, T. (2024). A review of "Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction: Preparation, Exploitation, Analysis". Register Studies. https://doi.org/10.1075/rs.23007.dix
Dixon, T. (2022). Rules of academic writing: A synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis across the disciplines. [Doctoral dissertation, Northern Arizona University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Dixon, T., Christison, M. A., Dixon, D., & Palmer, A. (2021). Coding scheme for a meta-analysis of hybrid language instruction. Coding scheme from “A meta-analysis of hybrid language instruction and call for future research” [Text/Analyses]. IRIS Database, University of York, UK. https://doi.org/10.48316/qTA2K-UQV5W
Black, A., Dixon, T., Goulart, L., & Wizner, S. (2021). Register and register variation. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0278
Dixon, T., Christison, M. A., Dixon, D.H., & Palmer, A. (2021). A review of previous studies examining the effectiveness of hybrid language instruction. OASIS Summary of Dixon, T., et al. (2021) in The Modern Language Journal. https://oasis-database.org/concern/summaries/np193975t?locale=en
Krulatz, A., & Dixon, T. (2016). Promoting pragmatic competence: Focus on refusals. Tri-TESOL Conference Proceedings, pp. 47–58. https://waesol.org/2015-tri-tesol-conference-proceedings/
SOFTWARE
Palmer, A., Dixon, D. H., Christison, M. A., & Dixon, T. (in preparation). Introduction to Research Methods App (IRMA).
Cox, A., Dixon, D. H., & Dixon, T. (2025). Vocabulary List Generator. Available from https://github.com/ashleigh-cox/Vocabulary-List-Generator
Dixon, D. H., & Dixon, T. (2020). Sampling Investigator (Version 2.0). Available from https://github.com/danielhdixon/sampling_investigator
Presentations
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Hashimoto, B., Dixon, T., Chapman, D., & Johnson, L. (2025, March 22–25). Triangulating corpus and survey data in understanding academic writers’ practices and attitudes toward linguistic prescriptions [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2025). Denver, CO.
Cox, A., Dixon, D. H., & Dixon, T. (2025, March 22–25). Introducing a vocabulary list tool accounting for frequency and dispersion. [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2025). Denver, CO
Dixon, T., Dixon, D. H., & Brown, S. (2024, September 13–15). Introducing the Historical Academic Writing Corpus [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2024). The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Goulart, L., & Dixon, T. (2024, September 13–15). Undergraduate writing across disciplines, communicative text types, and language backgrounds [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2024). The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Hashimoto, B., Dixon, T., Johnson, L., Krulatz, A., & Chapman, D. (2024, September 13–15). Rules of academic writing: Academic writers’ practices and perceptions [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2024). The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Dixon, D. H., Dixon, T., Christison, M., & Palmer, A. (2024, May 23–25). The design and development of Introduction to Research Methods App (IRMA): Educational technology for supporting new researchers in applied linguistics [Paper presentation]. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Pittsburgh, PA.
Goulart, L., & Dixon, T. (2023, October 26–28). The influence of communicative purpose and discipline in L1 and L2 university student writing [Paper presentation]. Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2023, March 18–21). The rules of academic writing: A synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, OR.
Kostadinova, V., Larsson, T., & Dixon, T. (2022, September 28–29). Using CMC data to explore the effects of language ideology on morphosyntactic variation: Prescriptivism in language use on Reddit. Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Larsson, T., Callies, M., Dixon, T., Hasselgård, H., Hober, N., Laso, N. J., Van Vuuren, S., Verdaguer, I., & Paquot, M. (2022, July 27–30). Adverb placement in L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) 43, Cambridge, UK.
Dixon, T., & Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., & Hanks, L. (2022, March 19–22). What is formality?: Triangulating corpus data with teacher perceptions [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Pittsburgh, PA.
Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Dixon, T., & Egbert, J. (2022, March 19–22). Examining students’ perceptions of formality in academic writing [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Pittsburgh, PA.
Palmer, A., Dixon, D. H, Christison, M. A., & Dixon T. (2022, March 19–22). Toward more equity in research methodology training: Educating beginning researchers using digital applications [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Pittsburgh, PA.
Dixon, D. H, & Dixon, T. (2022, March 22–25). Second language gains through digital game-based language learning: A meta-analysis [Paper presentation]. TESOL International Convention, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dixon, T., Christison, M. A., Dixon, D. H, & Palmer, A. (2021, November 19–21). A meta-analysis of hybrid language instruction and call for future research [Paper presentation]. ACTFL Virtual Convention.
Dixon, T. (2021, October 22–23). Adapting authentic texts for content-based instruction [Workshop]. AZTESOL Virtual State Conference.
Palmer, A., Dixon, D. H., Christison, M. A., & Dixon, T. (2021, August 15–21). Using digital technology to educate language teachers about the design, development, and use of research in applied linguistics [Focused multimodal presentation]. International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Groningen, the Netherlands.
Dixon, D. H., Dixon, T., & Jordan, E. (2020, October 23–25). Language gains in commercial digital game-based learning: A meta-analysis [Paper presentation]. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Nashville, TN.
Palmer, A., Dixon, D. H., Christison, M. A., & Dixon, T. (2020, March 28–31). Justifying the design, development, and use of research in applied linguistics [Poster presentation]. AAAL, Denver, CO. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
Dixon, T. (2020, March 28–31). Informality features in academic writing: A corpus analysis. [Paper presentation]. AAAL, Denver, CO. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
Dixon, T. (2020, February 29). The use of informal features in academic writing [Paper presentation]. Annual PEAKS Conference, Flagstaff, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2019, November 13–16). Myths or reality?: A corpus analysis of prescriptions in published research writing [Paper presentation]. Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ.
Dixon, T., & Neumann, H. (2019, November 1–2). CBI and reading: Now that’s a committed relationship [Workshop]. AZTESOL, Flagstaff, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2019, March 9). A corpus analysis of prescriptions in published research writing [Paper presentation]. Annual PEAKS Conference, Flagstaff, AZ.
Krulatz, A., & Dixon, T. (2017, March 21–24). Refusal strategies by advanced Korean and Norwegian learners of English [Paper presentation]. TESOL International Convention, Seattle, WA.
Krulatz, A., & Dixon, T. (2015, October 22–23). Promoting pragmatic competence: Focus on refusals [Paper presentation]. Tri-TESOL Conference, Des Moines, WA.
INVITED TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES
Dixon, T. (2024, Nov 4). Prescriptivism in academic writing [Invited talk for undergraduate students]. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Dixon, T. (2022, Jan 25). An introduction to corpus linguistics as a methodology [Invited virtual talk for undergraduate students]. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Dixon, D. H., & Dixon, T. (2022, April 15). L2 learning and research in the digital wilds. [Invited talk given for the CALL Club]. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2022, February 17). Best practices in manual linguistic coding [Guest lecture given in a graduate course on English grammar]. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2022, February 8). "The paper does not flow": Cohesion for academic writing [Guest lecture given in an undergraduate writing class]. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2021, September 13). Questioning the rules of academic writing [Guest lecture given in a large section undergraduate class on the history of the English language]. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Dixon, T. (2019, October 21). Null hypothesis significance testing, p values, and effect sizes [Guest lecture given in a graduate class on L2 research design]. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Dixon, T. (2017, June 7). Academic writing style [Guest lecture given in a graduate class in the Public Health Program]. University of Utah Asia Campus, Incheon, South Korea.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
Palmer, A., Dixon, D. H., Christison, M. A. & Dixon, T. (2019, November 21). Justifying the design, development, and use of research in applied linguistics [Paper presentation]. Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Dixon, T. (2019, February 20). Reconsidering complexity in academic writing [Professional development session]. Program in Intensive English, Flagstaff, AZ.
Research Interests
corpus linguistics, academic discourse, language attitudes, the use of technology in second language education, research methodology