Using MICASE: Tips & Tutorials
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.
If you need help using the MICASE online search interface, try one of these resources:
Learn how to use the MICASE search interface from the experts. They walk you through the features of MICASE online, how to search, and how to save and interpret your results. Using corpora has never been so easy!
Power Point slides from the video demo of MICASE online. Read through the slides at your own pace, or save them on your computer for your own reference later.
Helpful hints for using MICASE Online.
This is developed for teachers of English, but it is a nice short introduction to searching MICASE for anyone who wants to learn the basic features of our online search interface.
These two linked entries are designed to help newcomers to corpus linguistics and to the MICASE corpus, get started on analyses. This tutorial deals with the easier scenario of starting with a word. The word chosen for illustrative purposes is “concern”.
This section walks you through the process of using MICASE to search for a concept. This is much harder than simply searching for a word, because it is necessary to imagine possible ways of making suggestions prior to starting your search. It uses the example of investigating how speakers make suggestions to help you get started.
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).