Some people believe that students can learn as much by watching films as they learn by reading books. I agree with this idea and would like to explain why I agree with below reasons and examples.
First of all, students are more familiar with watching films and movie is much easier to understand than books. For example, there are many device manuals that have a paper version and a video version together. When we read a complicated paper manual, sometimes it is very difficult to understand how to use it. However, when we watch a film manual, we feel comfortable and understand it easily. Students’ learning must be similar to this example.
Second, students can get more information by watching than by reading in same time duration. This time saving is the biggest advantage of watching films in learning. For example, nowadays I am learning histories of the Middle East countries by watching You-tube videos. It consists of 6-hour lecture that is similar to almost 12 history books which would take at least a month to read them all. I saved time a lot to learn the histories by watching videos and it was so effective way of understanding their histories with visual effects such as maps and pictures and so on.
Third, nowadays it is easy for us to find films which we want to learn and it is also much cheaper than buying books. This point gives students many chances to check freely what they are interested in. For instance, we can find any kind of videos in You-tube and watching them at home as free of charge. So, students can see many kinds of films as pre-study and then they can concentrate on a specific field for their intensive study.
To sum up, watching films has many advantages such as easier understanding, time saving and easy access with big quantity for learning. In this regard, I strongly support the idea that students can learn a lot by watching videos similar to by reading books.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, at least, for example, for instance, kind of, such as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1594.0 1977.66487455 81% => OK
No of words: 337.0 407.700716846 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72997032641 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51508493826 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501483679525 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 618.680645161 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.7016552869 48.9658058833 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.5555555556 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7222222222 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.16666666667 5.45110844103 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395776080247 0.236089414692 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131791286667 0.076458572812 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101964471479 0.0737576698707 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257402343188 0.150856017488 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0989773603272 0.0645574589148 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 11.7677419355 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 58.1214874552 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.1575268817 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.39 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 86.8835125448 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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