AntConc: A Learner and Classroom Friendly, Multi-Platform Corpus Analysis Toolkit
Laurence Anthony · 2004
AntConc is a freeware, multi-platform, multi-purpose corpus analysis toolkit, designed specifically for use in the classroom. It hosts a comprehensive set of tools including a powerful concordancer, word and keyword frequency generators, tools for cluster and lexical bundle analysis, and a word distribution plot. In this paper, I will describe each of these tools, and explain their value to learners. Then, I will discuss the current limitations of the software, before explaining how I hope it will be improved in future releases.