Video Demo of MICASE
Teachers- this video will help you understand why the MICASE search interface is useful, how to use it, and how to incorporate what you find into your lessons.
Ute Römer and Stefanie Wulff will show you around our MICASE online search. They explain what MICASE is, how the online version of MICASE can be searched and browsed, and how MICASE search results can be analysed and saved. They also provide examples of how MICASE Online output can be used in the creation of teaching and testing materials.
You can also download the accompanying PowerPoint slides in PDF format.
A shorter version of the video (without the introduction by Nick Ellis and the question and answer session at the end) is also available on YouTube (in five parts). Here are the links to the five YouTube video clips:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Teachers- this video will help you understand why the MICASE search interface is useful, how to use it, and how to incorporate what you find into your lessons.
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.
First learn how to use MICASE online, then how to use the information you find to strengthen your English lessons. .
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.