ESL/EAP Teaching Materials
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These classroom materials have been developed using real dialogue from MICASE to give your students authentic role-plays and listening activities. Please feel free to use them in your own classroom, but don’t forget to acknowledge the authors and let them know that you are using their materials (e-mail addresses are usually provided on the materials themselves; if not you can send email to
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The history, purpose, and ideas behind the corpus of academic speech.
Discover all the features of the online searchable database. Get help with filtering and narrowing your searches, reading concordance results, and understanding the mark-up of our transcripts.
Order the transcripts, sound files, and the handbook here.
The sound files for many of our MICASE transcripts are available here, organized by speech event type.
These findings using MICASE data, give us a glimpse into the world of academic speech.
Explanation of tags, colors, punctuation, and other mark-ups used in our online transcripts, as well as word counts and number of transcripts by categories.
Our how-to use MICASE information complied into one downloadable document.
How is MICASE being used by applied linguists in these fields?
A list of publications, presentations and teaching materials using MICASE (1999-present).