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1. What is AntConc or AntWordProfiler (or other software) you found on Prof. Anthony’s website?
AntCons is a corpus tool that includes various functions such as word frequency, cluster and lexical bundle analysis and word distribution plot. Moreover, unlike other corpora aimed at researchers or only some specific tasks, AntConc is designed for use in the classroom and it is a freeware application. It also provides a powerful concordancer and is easy for users to familiarize the interface. 

2. How can we use them in our English teaching? 
AntConc involves a concordancer could be applied to language teaching in learning vocabulary, collocations, grammar and writing. We can search for certain keywords or phrases that we want from lots of data and to find how frequent they appear in different contexts. It is very useful and important for teachers and students to get several collocations and patterns to facilitate their knowledge in reading and writing. For advanced learners, they could acquire some practical patterns for academic writing in specified field through searching files by concordancer.

3. List two questions you want to ask Prof. Anthony.
What is a suitable way for junior high or high school teachers to use AntConc in their class?
How the teachers’ attitudes toward using AntConc as a tool for instruction?