Tülay Ö. Dixon 

I am Assistant Teaching Professor of Linguistics & Data Science at Oxford College of Emory University. I am also the Lab Coordinator, providing oversight and ongoing development of the online lab in which students learn how to use the programming language R for statistical analyses.

I specialize in corpus linguistics, a methodology used to identify patterns of language use and variation through computational analyses of large language datasets. Using the programming languages Python and R, I have applied corpus linguistics mainly to academic discourse to examine expert and novice writing as well as writing across different first language backgrounds. My research on academic discourse intersects with language attitudes, providing descriptive accounts of (a) how people actually use linguistic features commonly associated with judgements of “correctness” or “formality” and (b) the extent to which their use of these features varies across social and situational variables such as age, language background, and register.  I also have a keen interest in the use of technology in second language education and am passionate about research methodology. I frequently collaborate on projects aimed at developing open-source digital applications to improve the teaching of critical research skills.

I have 15 years of teaching experience and had the opportunity to teach diverse student populations at the graduate and undergraduate level. I have taught courses in linguistics, statistics, computer programming, pedagogy, academic writing, and English as second language in the United States, South Korea, and Türkiye.

I hold a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University, an MA in Linguistics from University of Utah, and a BA in English Language Teaching from Middle East Technical University.