The MICASE Handbook

Teaching and Classroom Management Strategies of Indonesian Master Teachers: Investigating a Vocational English Classroom

“…In total, Miss A, Miss B, and Miss C were recorded a total of 15 hours, 16.5 hours, and 13.5 hours consecutively. The data from video recordings were then, transcribed orthographically (broad transcriptions) using transcription conventions by Jefferson (2004) and Simpson, Lee, and Leicher (2002) which were revised to suit the objectives of the current study in Windows Vista Basic (2007). Line numbering indicating turn taking was given on the left of the page for easy reference.…”

An Investigation of Spoken Lexical Bundles in Interactive Academic Contexts

“…This is partly due to the number of participants; in many cases these events consist of a relatively small number of speakers. However, the main difference between these groups and academic lectures is that they are designed with student participation in mind; indeed, they are often intended to maximize student participation, whether or not an instructor is present (Simpson-Vlach & Leicher, 2006). This means that speaking turns are shorter (i.e., they consist of fewer words, rather then simply being shorter in time elapsed), more turns are taken, and a greater number of attendees have opportunities to speak.…”

“…Clearly, in order to conduct a study of academic spoken English, it was necessary to find a specialized corpus that focused mainly on the academic genre. The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) was compiled by the University of Michigan's English Language Institute between 1997 and 2001, with transcription and proofreading being completed the following year; some 200 total hours of academic speech were recorded across the university (Simpson-Vlach & Leicher, 2006). With a total of 152 speech events, MICASE contains examples of virtually every kind of speech event that occurs on a university campus -from academic lectures of varying sizes to lab sections to office hours and service encounters (Simpson-Vlach & Leicher, 2006).…”

“…MICASE has four academic divisions: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Health Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Social Sciences and Education (Simpson-Vlach & Leicher, 2006). For the present study, only transcripts from the latter two academic divisions -Humanities and Arts and Social Sciences and Education -were included.…”

“…seminars, study groups and discussion sections. The nature of these three speech encounters is described in some detail in the MICASE Handbook (Simpson-Vlach & Leicher, 2006). This information will be summarized and presented in brief below.…”