Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country

With the development of transportation around the world, there are more college and universities communicating with each other and sending their students to study in foreign countries. Although some people insist that it is necessary to force every student to spend at least one semester in a foreign country, I can’t agree with such idea.

It is true that studying in a foreign country is a good opportunity for students to experience foreign education system and enjoy different culture. Through at least one semester studying, students can not only find differences between their college and foreign one, but also communicate with students and professors who have been educated in a different way. As a result, after studying one semester in a foreign country, those students may have a better skill in communication and profound understanding in professional research. So, it is reasonable in some area to require students to take at least one year study in a foreign country.

However, not all students are suitable for an experience of foreign studying. Firstly, it is the language that prevents a large number of students from studying in a foreign country. In most of the cases, although students have passed language tests, they are not able to use the language as properly as the foreign citizens. Even if some countries share the same language, the problem of accent also causes misunderstanding in studying and communication, which may not easy to solve. Since the communication is not accurate enough, the efficiency of studying becomes doubtful. Besides, some students may not willing to go to the foreign country for studying one semester because of their personality. Foreign studying is not universally beneficial to every student, because such studying requires communication, self-learning skills and robust professional knowledge. The college and university should not force their students to take such long period learning, unless students are prepared for it. From my point of view, colleges and universities should consider the differences among students before forcing them to study in a foreign country.

The key to resolve such issue is how to improve students both language and professional knowledge properly. Some people believe that without the experience of international education, students can’t reach higher research level. But I agree that students’ personal learning skills and willingness should be considered first. With the development of online education, it is possible for students to get their international education without going abroad for at least one semester.

To sum up, some people believe that forcing student to study in a foreign country for at least one semester is necessary. But in order to help students improve themselves, I suggest that universities and colleges could just provide some foreign study program instead of forcing them to do such learning.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, so, at least, as a result, it is true, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2476.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 458.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40611353712 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99649560453 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456331877729 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 764.1 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.5549098164 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 117.904761905 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8095238095 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85714285714 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.564885886164 0.243740707755 232% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.184984427715 0.0831039109588 223% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100535971832 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.351596984388 0.150359130593 234% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0970623994066 0.0667264976115 145% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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