Development of an Algorithm for Testing Vocabulary-Based Reading-Level Suitability of English Book Readers

송한결; 정은우; 조수경; Yong-Ho Choi; Hyunbean Yi

Journal of Knowledge Information Technology and Systems

Abbr : JKITS
2015, 10(2), pp.163-171
Publisher : Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research

송한결 ¹ , 정은우 ² , 조수경 ³ , Yong-Ho Choi ⁴ , Hyunbean Yi ⁵

¹ 한밭대학교
² 한밭대학교
³ 한밭대학교
⁴ (주)유코아시스템 기술연구소
⁵ 한밭대학교

ABSTRACT

It is very important for a book reader to choose an appropriate book which is suitable for the reader's reading-level for a successful reading. Especially, when a reader choose a foreign book, more attention needs to be paid because the book's readability-level and the reader's reading-level have to be considered simultaneously. In case of English books that are sold or published in Korea, somewhat objective readability levels of them can be estimated to some degree by referring to the levels of difficulty which are developed by institutes in the U.S.A. or Korea. However, because reader's reading-levels can be estimated through a long English test, many readers avoid taking such a test and subjectively estimate their reading-level. They are therefore likely to choose an English book which are not suitable for their reading-level. This paper, for Korean readers whose mother tongue is not English, proposes an algorithm which can help a reader find out his/her reading-level suitability for an English book by a short time English vocabulary test. We present our systematic process for extracting test words from a target English book and for estimating the level suitability between the book and the reader. In order to evaluate our algorithm, we implement it in a Web application and show survey results.
KEYWORDS

Readability , eBooks , Reading level , Suitability , Vocabulary tests
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