COACAN (Corpus of Academic Canarian Spanish) is a linguistic  corpus that documents and analyzes varieties of Spanish spoken in the Canary  Islands, specifically within the university academic context. This dataset was developed as part of project A09 "On the interplay between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish" of the Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" (Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation), led by Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This corpus was developed at the University of La Laguna with students from three specific degree programs in October-November 2024:

• Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CAFYD)
• Hispanic Linguistics and Literature
• Education (Pedagogy)

The corpus focuses on spontaneous speech from Canarian university students, capturing both dialectal features of Canarian Spanish and academic/colloquial registers used in higher education settings, as well as their relationship with insular territory.