SIGNIFICANCE OF USING CORPORA TOOLS FOR MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT
Keywords:
Skell, Versatile/Versatext, web-based corpus tools, readability, FRES, linguistic level, text selection and application,Abstract
The article demonstrates the importance of using of AI-powered, web-based corpus tools in text selection, evaluation as part of material development and assessment. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied to shed light on the significance of using web-based corpora tools and have a clearer picture of texts selected by Uzbekistan and foreign professionals. Little research was conducted by looking at some texts from 5 standardized tests interms of the linguistic level according to CEFR, readability, and ratio of Band 1,2,3 vocabulary and academic words. Data analysis shows some text samples do not meet the requirement. This makes us believe that web-based language tools like Versatile and Sketch Engine, which generate natural language chunks within the European text corpora, are very practical assistants for material developers and ESL teachers. Moreover, the article gives recommendations considering data analysis results.
