Daniel H. Dixon

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

As someone who teaches computer programming in Python, I was happy to see this article which provides empirical evidence that AI-assistance in learning to code leads to "a statistically significant decrease in mastery".
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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

Our Department was featured in the local news! Way to go Youngmeen and Ute! www.11alive.com/article/tech...

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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...

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...

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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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...

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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Congrats, Dr. Cross! Well earned and deserved! If I could say it gets easier from here, I would. More fun is probably accurate though. Best of luck with the next chapter and your continued success!

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.

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!

I had a great time celebrating with our M.A. Graduates at the 2025 Graduation Ceremony at Georgia State University! Congratulations Class of 2025!

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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...

The article is free to download for the next few weeks!

VLG Interface

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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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.

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!

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 ...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:

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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)!
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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