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.