A novel frequency-range analysis (FRA) method for determining critical words among English high-stakes tests

• Published in: Journal of intelligent & fuzzy systems Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 9605 - 9620
• Main Authors: Chen, Liang-Ching, Chang, Kuei-Hu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 02.12.2023; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Cluster analysis; Colleges & universities; Corpus analysis; Corpus linguistics; Digitization; Education; Empirical analysis; English as a second language; English as a second language learning; English as a second language tests; Foreign languages; Frequency analysis; Function words; Industrial development; Novels; Quadrants; Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) method; frequency-range analysis (FRA) method; Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) method; Artificial intelligence (AI); corpus-based approach; English high-stakes test

Within the new era of artificial intelligence (AI), education industry should develop in the direction of intelligence and digitalization. For evaluating learners’ academic performances, English high-stakes test is not only a mere means for measuring what English as a Foreign Language (EFL) stakehol...