Many people believe that living in a country is the best way to learn a foreign language. However, some experts believe that it is better to learn a foreign language through formal courses. Discuss bothe views and give your own opinion.
In the modern world, learning an alien language is gradually becoming increasingly crucial for individual development, attributable to the rapid globalisation. It is commonly believed that residing in a country is arguably the optimum approach to learn a foreign language. However, other educationalists oppose this opinion. The following paragraphs will discuss the view and my perception.
It is reasonable to believe that living in another country contributes to efficiently enhancing the proficiency of a particular language. First of all, it provides learners with an appropriate environment to study the alien language. For instance, they are able to drastically improve their speaking skills by interacting with various native speakers. In addition, living in a foreign country enables you to promote the comprehensive understanding of the foreign language, including a series of slang and idioms that may not be involved in academic language studies.
On the other hand, some experts argue that formal language curriculum plays a more important role in learning a new language. Firstly, academic language courses allow students to obtain the knowledge about the painstaking grammar rules of a foreign language, which helps them develop professional writing skills. As an illustration, international students who study in English speaking countries must have a good command of grammar to complete their research essay. Secondly, numerous international students may not develop their language skills dramatically, as they have difficulty integrating themselves into the local community, because of cultural gap.
To conclude with my opinion, it is unquestionable that learners can enhance their foreign language skills by studying overseas. However, learning a new language through formal courses is more suitable for students to extend their knowledge about grammar rules.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 7.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 276 350
No. of Characters: 1571 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.076 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.692 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.083 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.54 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.55 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...nd their knowledge about grammar rules.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, for instance, in addition, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 10.4138276553 19% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1615.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 276.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.85144927536 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16459115149 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2209780303 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.357142857 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300036194304 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100792132149 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0763397666828 0.0667982634062 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185709304348 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0461782716994 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.65 12.4159519038 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.96 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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