With the development of technology, studying films also has become a prominent part of school curriculum. There is a heated debate whether movie studies has a significant educational value as literature. This essay will discuss how film studies allow students to think broadly and limited support to improve language compared to printed matter.
Firstly, studying films enables students to look beneath the surface and discover deeper meanings about world including various aspects of lifestyles in different cultures. A veteran film director is able to depict the socioeconomic background of the society with the support of technologies such as background music. For instance, the movie Gandhi provides information on Indian society, imperialism, non-violent protest, personal freedoms, rights and responsibilities and religions for students to discuss. Therefore, studying films broadens mental horizons of pupils because it stimulates visual and auditory faculties as well.
On the other hand learning films does not help students to develop their language skills. In a film, the story is taught with visuals, simple dialogues and background music where as in literature advanced language is used with limited number of dialogues. Reading Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations helps a student to improve English grammar, vocabulary and complex sentence patterns compared with watching the same film. Hence, parallel to film studies students should read relevant books to improve their language skills.
In summary, although films allow pupils to get a deeper understanding of life it does not allow them to improve formal language. In my opinion, the benefits of learning films cannot be undermined and necessary actions should be taken to improve reading and other parts of language.
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- Technological access to online music and the like should be free or paid. What do you think? 77
- Certain kinds of music promote learning in theirlife. Agree or disagree. 72
- Do you think the school should have curriculum asking students to play old drama and work for theatre centuries ago? 93
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'whereas'?
Suggestion: whereas
..., simple dialogues and background music where as in literature advanced language is used...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, look, so, therefore, well, for instance, in summary, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.5418719212 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 5.94088669951 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 20.9802955665 33% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1539.0 1207.87684729 127% => OK
No of words: 269.0 242.827586207 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72118959108 5.00649968141 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 3.92707691288 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87506515416 2.71678728327 106% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 139.433497537 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613382899628 0.580463131201 106% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 379.143842365 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.6157635468 22% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.5024630542 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.9398473095 50.4703680194 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.384615385 104.977214359 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6923076923 20.9669160288 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.76923076923 7.25397266985 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 6.9802955665 172% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26723023373 0.242375264174 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100798854362 0.0925447433944 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0723054024788 0.071462118173 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164515732738 0.151781067708 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0967840669624 0.0609392437508 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 12.6369458128 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.1260098522 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.9 11.5310837438 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.85 8.32886699507 118% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 55.0591133005 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.3980295567 96% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.5123152709 152% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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