Dilin Liu teaches English grammar, language acquisition, and language pedagogy. His research and publications focus on grammar and lexis, especially corpus-based description and teaching of grammar and vocabulary. He has also published on topics regarding discourse analysis, language and culture, pedagogy, and teacher education.

Liu has served on the Editorial Boards of various international journals in applied linguistics, such as English Language Teaching Journal (2001-2004), TESOL Quarterly (2005-2008), TESOL Journal (2009-2016), Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education (2015-), Journal of  English for Academic Purposes (2019-), Journal of Second Language Studies (2017-), International Journal of Lexicography (2021-), Lingua (2017-), and System (2020-),  as well as a reviewer for over twenty linguistics journals and publishers including Applied Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic theory, English for Specific Purposes, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, International Journal of Lexicography, Journal of English Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Learning, Language Teaching Research, Modern Language journal, Research in the Teaching of English, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, System, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Mcmillan, and Routledge.

Books Authored

• Lei, Lei and Liu, Dilin. (2021). Conducting sentiment analysis . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Liu, Dilin. (2017) Description and instruction of lexis and grammar: Research studies and teaching practices guided by contemporary linguistic theories. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei (2017). Using corpora for language learning and  teaching. Alexandria, VA. TESOL Press/TESOL International Association.
• Liu, Dilin. (2013). Describing and explaining grammar and vocabulary in ELT: Key theories and effective practices. London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin. (2008). Idioms: Description, Comprehension, Acquisition, and  Pedagogy. London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin. (2002). Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview: The Case of American English and the Chinese Language. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

Books Edited

• Liu, Dilin and Master, Peter. (2003). Grammar Teaching in Teacher Education. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Press/TESOL International Association.

Journal Articles

• Lei, Lei, Deng, Yaochen., and Liu, Dilin. (In press). Research on the learning/teaching of L2 listening: A bibliometric review and its implications. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching.
• Liu, Dilin. and Deng, Yaochen. (2023, online-first). The nonuse of the definite article the in referencing definite nouns in research writing: An empirical study using both corpus and survey data and its implications. Journal of English for Academic Purposes.
• Wu, Shiyu, Liu, Dilin, and Huang, Shaoqiang. (2023, first published online, May 2022). The effects of over- and under-specified linguistic input on L2 online processing of referring expressions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52, 283-305.
• Lei Lei, Deng, Yaochen, and Liu, Dilin. (2023, first published online, December 2020). Examining research topics with a dependency-based noun phrase extraction method: A case in accounting. Library High Tech, 41(2), 570-582.
• Deng, Yaochen, Liu, Dilin, and Wu, Shuqiong. (2022). Academic English verbs across disciplines: A corpus study and its implications. AMPERSAND: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences and Bilingualism.
• Wu, Shiyu, Liu, Dilin, and Li, Zan. (2022 online-first). Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels. Second Language Research.
• Liu, Ping, Zhang, Yao, and Liu, Dilin. (2022). Flow experience in foreign language writing: Its effect on students’ writing process and writing performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 952044
• Wu, Shiyu, Liu, Dilin, and Li, Zan. (2022, online-first). Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching.
• Deng, Yaochen and Liu, Dilin. (2022). A multi-dimensional comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of association measures in collocation extraction. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 27(2), 191-219.
• Li, Hanxi, Liu, Honggang, and Liu, Dilin. (2022).Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace: Analyzing television dramatic dialogue in “The Newsroom”. Journal of Pragmatics, 187, 58-71.
• Liu, Dilin, Deng, Yaochen, and Yang, Siyan. (2021, first published online December, 2020). Evaluating popular online English-Chinese dictionaries in China by applying Lew and Szarowska’s (2017) evaluation framework. International Journal of Lexicography, 34(2), 157-182.
• Deng, Yaochen, Lei, Lei, and Liu, Dilin. (2021, first advance published online January, 2020). Calling for more consistency, refinement, and critical consideration in the use of syntactic complexity measures for writing. Applied Linguistics, 42(5), 1021-1028.
• Li, Mingxian, Li, Yujun, and Liu Dilin. (2021). The development of a neuropsychology word list. Language and Cognitive Science, 6(1), 44-59.
• Liu, Dilin and Mo, Qiyang. (2020). Conceptual metaphors and image schemas: A corpus analysis of the development of the On Track/Off Track idiom pair. Journal of English Linguistics, 48(2), 137-165.
• Wu, Shuqiong and Liu, Dilin. (2020). Quantitative corpus methods for lexical semantic studie: Behavioral analysis [词汇语义的语料库量化研究：行为特征分析法]. The Journal of English Studies [英语研究]. 11, 153-164. (in Chinese). 
• Liu, Dilin and Myers, Daniel. (2020, first published online September, 2018). The most-common phrasal verbs with their key meanings for spoken and academic written English: A corpus analysis. Language Teaching Research, 24(3), 403-424.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei. (2020). Research on academic word lists: A state of the art review [学术词表研究综述]. Foreign Language Education [外语教学], 41(2), 34-38, 50 (in Chinese).
• Lei, Lei and Liu, Dilin. (2019, first advance published online March, 2018).  Research trends in applied linguistics from 2005 – 2016: A bibliometric analysis and its implications. Applied Linguistics. 40 (3), 540-561.
• Lei, Lei and Liu, Dilin. (2019). The research trends and contributions of System’s publications over the past four decades (1973-2017): A bibliometric analysis. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 80, 1-13.
• Liu, Dilin. (2018). A corpus study of Chinese EFL learners’ use of circumstance, demand, and significant: An in-depth analysis of L2 vocabulary use and its implications. Journal of Second Language Studies, 1 (2), 309-333.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei. (2018). The appeal to political sentiment: An analysis of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s speech themes and discourse strategies in the 2016 US presidential election. Discourse, Context & Media, 25, 143-152.
• Lei, Lei and Liu, Dilin. (2018). The academic English collocation list: A corpus-driven study. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 23 (2), 216-243.
• Pan, Yi-Chun., Tsai, Tsung-Hung, and Liu, Dilin. (2018, first published online September, 2016). Effects of expanded vocabulary support on listening comprehension. Language Teaching Research 22 (2), 189-207.
• Lei, Lei and Liu, Dilin. (2016). A new medical academic word list: A corpus-based study with enhanced methodology. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 22, 42-53.
• Liu, Dilin and Zhong, Shouman. (2016, first advance published online June, 2014). L2 vs. L1 use of synonymy: An empirical study of synonym use/acquisition, Applied Linguistics, 37(2), 239-261.
• Liu, Dilin and Zhan, Hongwei. (2015). The use of the “-free” compound and “free of” and “free-from” phrasal constructions: A diachronic and synchronic study. Journal of English Linguistics, 43(3), 201-226.
• Liu, Dilin. (2013). Using corpora to help teach difficult-to-distinguish English words. English Teaching, 68(3), 27-50.
• Liu, Dilin. (2013). Salience and construal in the use of synonymy: A study of two sets of near-synonymous nouns. Cognitive Linguistics, 24, 67-113. 
• Liu, Dilin. (2012). Combining cognitive and corpus linguistic approaches in language research and teaching: Theoretical grounding, practices, and challenges. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 12, 18-33.
• Liu, Dilin and Espino, Maggie. (2012). Actually, genuinely, really, and truly: A corpus-based behavioral profile study of the near-synonymous adverbs.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17, 198-228.
• Liu, Dilin. (2012). The most frequently-used multi-word constructions in academic written English: A multi-corpus study. English for Specific Purposes. 31, 25-35.
• Liu, Dilin. (2011). The most-frequently used English phrasalverbs in American and British English: A multi-corpus examination. TESOL Quarterly. 45, 661-688.
• Liu, Dilin. (2011). Making grammar instruction more empowering: A case study of corpus use in the learning/teaching of grammar. Research in the Teaching of  English, 45,  353-377.  
• Liu Dilin. (2010). Is it a chief, main,major, primary, or principal concern? A corpus-based behavioral profile study of the near-synonymsand its implications.   International Journal  of Corpus Linguistics, 15, 56-87.
• Liu, Dilin. (2010). Going beyond patterns: Involving cognitive analysis in the learning of collocations. TESOL Quarterly, 44, 4-30.
• Jungueira, Luciana and Liu, Dilin (2010). Intelligible pronunciation: Towards an approach focused on classroom instruction. Gláuks, 10(1), 131-151.
• Liu, Dilin and Jiang, Ping. (2009). Using a corpus-based lexicogrammatical approach to grammar instruction in EFL and ESL contexts. Modern Language Journal, 93, 61-78.
• Liu, Dilin. (2008). Linking adverbials: An across-register corpus study and its implications.  International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 13, 491-518.
• Liu, Dilin. (2008). Intransitive or object-deleting: Classifying English verbs used without an object. Journal of English Linguistics, 36, 287-313.
• Liu, Dilin. (2008). Adequate language description in L2 research/teaching: The case of pro-drop language speakers learning L2 English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 18, 274-292.
• Liu, Dilin. (2005). Plagiarism in ESOL students: Is cultural-conditioning truly the major culprit? English Language Teaching Journal, 58, 234-241.
• Liu, Dilin, Ahn, G., BaekK., and Han, N. (2004). South Korean high school English teachers’ code-switching: Questions and challenges in the drive for maximal use of English in teaching, TESOL Quarterly, 38, 605-638. 
• Liu, Dilin. (2003). The most frequently used spoken American English idioms: A corpus analysis and its implications. TESOL Quarterly, 37, 671-700.
• Liu, Dilin and Gleason, Johanna. (2002). The acquisition of the article the by nonnative speakers of English: An analysis of four nongeneric uses. Studies in Second language Acquisition, 24, 1-26.
• Liu, Dilin. (2000). Writing cohesion: Using content lexical ties in ESOL. English Teaching Forum, 38.1 , 28-33.
• Liu, Dilin. (2000). Multiple-site practicum: Opportunities for diverse learning and teaching experiences. TESOL Journal, 9, 18-22.
• Liu, Dilin. (2000). “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.
• Liu, Dilin and Zhong, Shouman. (1999).  Acquisition of culturally-loaded words in EFL. Foreign Language Annuals, 32, 177-187.
• Liu, Dilin. (1998). Ethnocentrism in TESOL: Teacher education and the neglected needs of international TESOL students. The English Language Teaching Journal, 52, 3-10.
• Liu, Dilin and Farha, Bryan. (1996). 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, 36-40.
• Liu, Dilin. (1995).  Sociocultural Transfer: Its Effects on L2 Speakers’ Communication. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 19, 253-265.
• Liu, Dilin. (1994). “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, 174-177.
• Liu, Dilin. (1992). A Good Man Is Hard to Find: The Difference between the Word and the World. Short Story, 2.2, 63-75.
• Liu, Dilin. (1992). Emelye, Constance, Griselda, and Dorigen: Chaucer’s Treatment of Women. Midland Review, 8, 111-120.

Book Chapters, Articles in Proceedings, and Other Publications

• Liu, Dilin, Deng, Yaochen, and Wu, Shuqiong. (in press). Corpus approaches to lexis and lexicography. In M. Mahlberg and Gavin Brookes (Eds.). The Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London/New York: Bloomsbury
• Jiang, Nan and Liu, Dilin. (in press). Lexicosemantic development in a second language. In T. Ionin, S. A. Montrul, and R. Slabakova (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of SLA, Morphosyntax and Semantics. London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin and Deng, Yaochen. (in press). Idioms in American English. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin and Wu, Shuqiong. (in press). American English lexis. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin. (2022). Using corpora for learning academic writing: A systematic review. In Y. N. Leung, et al. (Eds.). Selected papers from the Thirty-first International Symposium on English Language Teaching (pp. 37-59). Taipei: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin. (2021) Arguing for exploring L1 and L2 similarities for L2 learning: The case of Chinese speakers learning English as an L2. In Y. N. Leung, et al. (Eds.). Reflections on the English language teaching and learning in the diversified and multilingual world (pp. 638-661). Taipei: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin and Tsai, Tzung-Hung. (2021). Cognitive linguistics and language pedagogy. In X. Wen and J. Taylor (Eds), The Routledge handbook of cognitive linguistics (pp. 543-555)  London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei. (2019). Technical vocabulary. In Stuart Webb (Ed.). The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies (pp. 111-124). London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin. (2018). Pre/semi-prefabricated Chunks in Language: Re-conceptualizing the Learning of the Linguistic Aspect of Language in SLA. In Y. Leung (Ed), Reconceptualizing English language teaching and learning in the 21st century. (pp. 344-363). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei. (2018). Teaching idiomatic expressions with make, do, have and other common verbs. In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 3241-3247). Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei. (2018). Using Corpora to Teach Vocabulary. In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 3438-3445). Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin and Nelson, Robert. (2018). Country of origin and NNESTs. In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 1033-1039). Oxford, UK/Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin and Zhan, Hongwei. (2018). Teaching prepositions and particles. In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 3314-3319). Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin and Lei, Lei. (2017). Teaching location in time and other metaphorical senses.  In J. Liontas (Ed), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 3269-3275). Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
• Liu, Dilin and Nelson, Robert. (2017). Diversity in the Classroom. In J. Liontas (Ed.), TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (pp. 585-590). Oxford, UK/Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
• Liu, Dilin. (2016). Using corpora in language learning and teaching: A state of the art article. In Y. Leung (Ed.). Epoch making in English teaching and learning: Evolution, innovation, and revolution (pp. 159-182). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin and Nelson, Robert. (2016). Teaching language as a system. In G. Hall (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching (pp. 413-427).  London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin. (2015). Contrastive Analysis revisited: The case of Chinese and English and its implications for English learning/teaching. Selected papers from the twenty-third international symposium on English teaching (pp. 67-81). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin and Jiang, Ping. (2015). Corpus-based lexicogrammatical approach to grammar instruction: Its use and effects in EFL and ESL contexts. In M. Christison, D. Christian, P. Duff, and N. Spada (Eds.) Teaching and learning grammar: Research findings and future directions (pp. 103-118 ). London/New York: Routledge.
• Liu, Dilin. (2014).  Using free online English language learning/teaching resources. Selected papers from the twenty-third international symposium on English teaching (pp. 51-65). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin. (2013). Teaching grammar. In Chapelle, C. A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 5572–5578), Oxford,, UK/ Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Liu, Dilin. (2013). Making grammar learning/teaching interesting and engaging by exploring motivations and patterns in grammar. Selected papers from the twenty-second international symposium on English teaching (pp. 83-95). Taipei, Taiwan: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin. (2012). Review of  “Gilquin, Gaëtanalle, Sylvie De Cock, & Sylviane Granger (Eds.).LINDSEI: Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlangauge.” Modern Language Journals, 96, 643-644.
• Liu, Dilin. (2012). Using corpus and Cognitive linguistic analysis in teaching lexis and grammar. AL Forum (Newsletter of the Applied Linguistics Interest Section of International TESOL Association, 32.1.
• Liu, Dilin. (2011). Applying contemporary linguistic theories in language teaching. In Y. Leung (Ed.), Selected papers from 2011 PAC/the 20^th international symposium on English Teaching (pp. 71-82). Taiwan, Taipei: Crane Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin. (2010). New theories and effective practices in grammar teaching search. Proceedings of the 20^thInternational Conference of International Association of Korean Language Education (pp. 29-41). Seoul, South Korea. 
• Liu, Dilin. (2010). Using corpora in treating lexicogrammatical errors in ESL writing. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on ELT technology (pp. 1-15).  Pingtung, Taiwan.
• Liu, Dilin. (2010). Using Corpora for language learning, teaching, and research. In A. Mahboob (ed.). NNEST Lens: Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL  (pp. 305-324).  NewcastleuponTyne: UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.    
• Liu, Dilin. (2008). 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 Publishing Company.
• Liu, Dilin and Master, Peter. (2003). 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.
• Liu, Dilin. (2001). From Rosalynde to As You Like It: Shakespeare’s Celebration of Blood Order. In 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.
• Liu, Dilin. (1999). 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.
• Liu, Dilin and Lin, Canchu. (1999). The pride of zuguo: China’s perennial appeal to the overseas Chinese and an emergent civic discourse in a global community. In R. Kluver and J. Powers (Eds.). Civic discourse, Civic Society, and Chinese Communities (pp. 209-220). Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing Co.
• Liu, Dilin. (1993, October). On Sexism in the Chinese Language. Shijie ribao zoukan [World Journal Weekly], (p. S2). (In Chinese).
• Liu, Dilin. (1994, July 10). Parents’ Involvement in Children’s School Education: Why and How? Shijie Ribao Zoukan [World Journal Weekly], p. S10. (In Chinese)
• Liu, Dilin. (1993). The Correct/Incorrect Test: Is It a Reliable Format in Measuring Students’ Performance on Grammar. OKTESOL NEWSLETTER, 13.3, 7-16.
• Liu, Dilin. (1992). The Center of Class: The Role of the ESL/EFL Teacher Reconsidered. OKTESOL NEWSLETTER, 12.2, 5-11.