Some people believe that children can learn effectively by watching TV and they should be encouraged to watch TV both at home and at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree.
Watching television, especially informative programmes, is considered to be an effective method of learning for the reason that audio-visual information can grab students’ attention and engage their interest easily. However, I am not favour of the idea that students should increase screen time, despite the fact that many TV programmes these days have some educational values.
One of the reasons I am against that idea is that television viewing would interfere with children’s studies, as well as their participation in other activities that are beneficial to their growth. Children get distracted easily when watching TV, especially without adults’ guidance. As a consequence, students who watch television frequently may not be able to concentrate on their learning tasks, resulting in poor academic performance. What’s more, children would have no time to attend those interactive activities which help promote their brain developments, such as reading, singing, and communicating.
Another reason is that long screen time would have an adverse impact on children’s social development. This is because they tend to sit in front of the TV for hours, instead of playing games with friends, or talking with teachers, which make them isolated, not feeling like expressing their views or understanding other’s thoughts. Without good communication skills, it would be difficult for them to acquire knowledge, draw upon the ideas of others, and achieve academic success.
On the other hand, I admit that television exposes children to a world of knowledge. There are many educational programmes targeted at children, which help them gain insight into various subjects. For example, historical documentaries help children understand historical events, while foreign languages channels benefit their languages learning. This knowledge is a complement for what they have learned at school.
In conclusion, I would argue that parents and teachers should impose restrictions on children’s television viewing, instead of endorsing such a habit. Watching too much TV will exert a negative effect on their studies, rather than improving their school grades.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1875.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 323.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.80495356037 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17531466786 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625386996904 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.8938641396 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.0 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5333333333 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.73333333333 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212739884289 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0756144787263 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557540019773 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122446773297 0.151304729494 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342540901353 0.056905535591 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.36 12.4159519038 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.81 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 9.78957915832 169% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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