Every nation should require students to study at least one foreign language from the elementary school level through university level.
I only agree with the statement partially for the “all or nothing” view that it presents. While there might be many instances where the statement would be feasible and also beneficial, I believe it fails to recognize the realities of impleneting this for every nation. In my opinion, such a ruling should only be limited to countries which can implement this succsesffully, and without financial stress.
There is no denying the benefits of being proficient in a foreign lanaugage. Given the rapid urbanzation and global development that every country is witnessing, cities are becoming more culturally diverse. Companies have teams which inlcude people from all across the world, working together in person or remotely. It thus makes sense to be fluent in a foregin langugae. It will give students an edge over others when they graduate. It will make their transition into foreign countries much smoother. Most importantly, it will prepare them to work in a multi-cultural environment. It will also save them the burden and pressure of learning a new language while working in a new environment.
In fact, when one considers the established job markets in popular fields like Computer Science and Enginnering, America - home to Facebook, Google ,etc comes to mind. For many young graduates in developing countries, this is the dream. Learning a foreign language (like English for non-native speakers) will be immensely helpful. Not only will it put them in a better position to apply for their dream jobs, but it will also help them in standardized English Languae tests (like the GRE, GMAT, TOEFEL, etc) which are accepted globally.
But this is where the statement’s “all or nothing” view starts to break. For a majority of US students who plan to continue working in the United States, is there really a need to learn a foreign language? The same can be said for any student who wishes to continue working in his homeland. Students should not be forced to study an additional langauge with all the existing coursework of school and college.
What’s also problematic is choosing which language to learn and who is to decide this if not the students? Learning an additoinal langaue which is not going to be used later is a waste of time and resources of the students who are paying the school fees.
The statment also fails to consider that sometimes it might not be feasible for a diverse country like India to institute such a ruling for every school. For instance, there might be regional langugaes which need to be promoted and taught in order to preserve their existance. Countries would want to give preference to these langauges over a foregin langauge. There is also an issue of available resources. In developing and impoversished countries, the budget for education is already spread thin across students. It’s impractical to expect such countries to hire trained foreign language experts. To enforce this would only serve as a financial stress over the schools. In fact, schools might have to start compromising on other , more important aspects like infastructure, food, or hiring of other faculty members - just so that they can accomodate this ruling.
In conclusion, while learning the right foreign langugae would be beneficial, instituting such a policy, in a manner in which it actually helps students requires a lot of careful considertions. It is thus best to leave the ruling for the respective countries to decide whether they can effective institute this recommendation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Suggestion: ,
...ring, America - home to Facebook, Google ,etc comes to mind. For many young gradua...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, really, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2968.0 2235.4752809 133% => OK
No of words: 574.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17073170732 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89472135074 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92273911528 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506968641115 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 916.2 704.065955056 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.0658272109 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7419354839 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5161290323 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.25806451613 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.117809201911 0.243740707755 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0326303685728 0.0831039109588 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342167818696 0.0758088955206 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0651727988737 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0259270059688 0.0667264976115 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 100.480337079 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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