Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? For students, the ability to listen well is as important as the ability to read well
Many people debate whether it is more important for students to have excellent reading ability or to hone their listening skills. Personally, I think that listening skills are just as important for students as reading skills. My opinion is based on reasons that I will go into detail on in the subsequent paragraphs.
To begin with, students are taught using a variety of m ethods. Teachers make use of traditional textbooks and lectures, as well as technology, such as videos and audio recordings. Not only are we expected to read but to listen to a variety of audio sources. While the use of captions makes it easier to understand what the speaker is saying in videos, this is not possible with audio recordings and oral presentations. Because of this, students need to pay attention to discern words of a lecture, especially if the speaker has an accent. My personal experience is a compelling illustration of this point. I studied in a foreign country in a school where we have teachers from all over the world. This meant I had to pay close attention to the words being spoken to understand the speech, as almost all the teachers had an accent, all of which differed from the other.
Furthermore, students should be able to follow along with the lecture. Understanding the words alone is not enough. They should be able to relate to prior knowledge and make connections with points previously covered in the lecture in order to fully grasp the concepts. To illustrate, during my earlier years in school I used to simply jot down parts of the lesson without paying particular attention to what was being taught. This meant that I had to reread my notes at a later time along with the textbook to understand the subject matter. However, ever since I have decided to drop this habit and simply listen to what is being taught, I can relate the oral lesson to previous knowledge and recall what was taught earlier. This ultimately led me to understand the lesson far better than before.
In short, I believe that both reading and listening skills are required if a student wishes to learn effectively. This is because education is delivered through both audio and visual mediums. Being able to interpret the lecture as it is being given is just as important as comprehending the text one is reading.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, so, well, while, i think, in short, such as, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1915.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 398.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81155778894 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70686520992 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520100502513 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 618.680645161 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3399284478 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.1904761905 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9523809524 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80952380952 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176528042715 0.236089414692 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0540985450077 0.076458572812 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.070774210565 0.0737576698707 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117459518907 0.150856017488 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778244061518 0.0645574589148 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 11.7677419355 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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