ANALYSE THE FREQUENCY OF WORDS USING

WORD LIST

1. Find an article on the internet. An example of the article,

“How to Beat Insomnia and Sleep Easy”

2. Copy the content of the article that you want to anaylse by holding the ‘Shift’ + ‘A’

tab or right click ‘Select All’.

3. Open ‘Notepad’ on your windows.

4. Paste the content that you have copied onto the ‘Notepad’. This is important as

AntConc can only read .txt files.

5. Save the file.

6. Now, open up AntConc that you have downloaded. Click on ‘File’ > ‘Open File(s)… and choose the .txt file that you have saved.

7. You can see your file’s name on the left side ‘Corpus Files’. Click on it.

8. Then, take your pick to either analyse the words by clusters, collocates, word list or keyword list.

Since we are only focusing on ‘word list’, click on it then click on the small blue ‘Start’ button at the

bottom.

9. You will see the result that has been classified according to ‘Rank’, ‘Freq’, ‘Word’.

10. It is shows that the word ‘sleep’ is frequently used which is for 28 times.