Learning English at school is often seen as more important than learning local languages. If these are not taught, many are at risk of dying out.
In your opinion, is it important for everyone to learn English? Should we try to ensure the survival of local languages and, if so, how?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
For many years English has been considered as the universal language and an increasing number of people around the world are being pushed to learn it. As much as English is required in order to communicate with the world and a very appreciated asset in the curriculum, it also imposes the adoption of a western culture over the local one.
Nowadays, being fluent in English is almost a must in someone’s curriculum. It opens more doors for employment and serves as a ladder for professional success. It is quite known that companies tend to choose bilingual employees, especially those who are able to communicate in English. Also, English speakers are more likely to receive a promotion. This trend makes sense when considering that English is the universal language and we live in a global society. Multinational companies are spread all over the countries, and even many national companies are required to have relations with people abroad if they want to increase their profits. Thus, in order to succeed as a company in this global market, it is necessary to have employees able to communicate well in English.
However, having English as the world’s chosen language is not only beneficial. Firstly, when we adopt a new language, we also adopt new culture as a language is product of the society’s history and reflects its cultural aspects. For example, English is known as a straight forward language, as it is the Americans. Whereas French is a complex and charming language, same as the French people. There are more ways of describing different feelings in French than in English, and usually French sentences are longer than the English sentences. Lastly, as more importance is given to English as a language, the less-common-used dialects are left behind and the history and culture of that society start to be forgotten.
Thus, the globalization enhances the relationship among different countries and cultures, and English was the chosen language for a global communication. Learning English allows someone to relate with the most diverse kind of people, and this is a fantastic asset for employees of multinational and also national companies. The downside of giving abundant importance to English is that it forces the adoption of a western culture, and it eventually fades dialects and other cultures putting them in risk of extinction.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, so, thus, well, whereas, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 13.1623246493 198% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1983.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 385.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15064935065 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92792373406 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496103896104 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 626.4 506.74238477 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4445898776 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.166666667 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3888888889 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88888888889 7.06120827912 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.24216707783 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765615622015 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386838050039 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152604864466 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0181165164601 0.056905535591 32% => 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: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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