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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=657345614-20092007>Dear all,
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=657345614-20092007>Earlier
this summer, Annelie Ädel announced on this list the launch of the new online
search interface of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE).
MICASE is a corpus of more than 1.7 million words of transcribed speech
from a wide range of settings (152 events and almost 200 hours of recordings
altogether) from different academic disciplines recorded at the University of
Michigan. MICASE speech events include lectures, lab sections, seminars,
advising sessions, and dissertation defenses. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=657345614-20092007>We would
now like to hear from anyone who has used the new MICASE online interface
(accessible at <A
href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/">http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/</A>) and
get feedback on the user-friendliness and functionality of the site (functions
that you like or don't like, additional functions you would like to have...).
What we would also like to know is what you use MICASE online for, whether you
use it in your teaching (in teaching linguistics? in teaching English for
Academic Purposes?), whether you use it with your students in class or introduce
(EAP) learners to working with the corpus independently, and whether you make
use of the sound files that are freely accessible online at <A
href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Audio/index.htm">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Audio/index.htm</A> (a
different set of audio files, about 85 hours of recording on 9 CDs, are
available for purchase -- see <A
href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/orderaudio.htm">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/orderaudio.htm</A>).
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=657345614-20092007>We are
looking forward to hearing from you! </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=657345614-20092007>Thanks and
best wishes,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=657345614-20092007>Ute -- and
the MICASE team </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>***************************************************************************</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Dr. Ute Römer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Director of the Applied Corpus
Linguistics Unit<BR>English Language Institute<BR>University of
Michigan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Email: <A
href="mailto:uroemer@umich.edu"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>uroemer@umich.edu</FONT></A><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2> <BR>Phone:
+1 734 763 7133 </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Fax: +1 734 763 0369
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><A
href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/</A> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><A
href="http://www.uteroemer.com/">http://www.uteroemer.com</A> <BR>MICASE:
</FONT><A href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm</FONT></A><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>MICUSP: </FONT><A
href="http://www.micusp.org/"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>http://www.micusp.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2> </FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2><BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG>Surface mail
address:<BR></STRONG>Dr. Ute Römer<BR>University of Michigan <BR>English
Language Institute<BR>500 E. Washington Street<BR>Ann Arbor, MI
48104-2028<BR>USA</FONT></DIV>
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