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This article discusses the great potential of the current movement toward open data in the field of English language education. For this purpose, I introduce and illustrate an online system specially designed to aid instruction of constructional patterns in English. The system, the TED Corpus Search Engine (TCSE), uses a set of open data of English presentations from TED Conferences and provides many functionalities, including full-text utterance retrieval of both transcript segments and corresponding videos using various search operators. The article shows that the open data movement, alongside technological innovations, could greatly benefit English language educators if they increase their awareness and make necessary efforts. I also present and discuss the fact that by making use of the appropriate data, it is possible to bridge the apparent gap between work in theoretical linguistics and the practice of language education. The TCSE is equipped with several features that help the user to extract instances of constructional patterns of English from the TED Talks corpus. Their designs are based on observations and theorizations from the field of cognitive linguistics.
