Every nation should require students to study at least one foreign language
from the elementary school level through the university level.
Foreign language study can be a valuable component of a balanced education. So, too, can poetry,
economics, or public speaking. But students are individuals, and live in a wide variety of circumstances around
the world. It is going too far to say that every nation should require its students to study foreign languages.
Different countries have different needs and circumstances. While many bemoan the lack of international
outlook in the U.S., it is reasonable to note that most Americans do just fine speaking only one language. Of
course, universities, prep schools, and other institutions are still free to make foreign language instruction
mandatory, as many do now. In Sweden, however, it is a sound policy to make foreign language mandatory for
nearly everyone; Sweden has an excellent school system, free through the university level, and it is clear that
Swedish is a minority language, and English has actually become the language of international business in
Sweden and throughout Europe. Sweden currently mandates the teaching of English, as it should. If the
government did not compel students to learn English, they would struggle to compete in the global job market.
While Sweden has one of the highest standards of living in the world, many nations simply have no ability to
provide foreign language instruction, nor does it seem as though such instruction should be the top priority. In
many countries, primary schools cost money, and many girls don't get to go to school at all, or must drop out due
to lack of funds, early marriage, or their families’ needing them to work. If female students in Afghanistan are to
receive only a few years of education in their entire lives, it seems absurd to mandate that they learn foreign
languages, as this would be a waste of their time and effort. Individual schools and teachers should be free to
decide how to best use the limited time available.
Finally, not only are nations different from one another, but so are students. Many students have learning
disabilities that make foreign language learning virtually impossible. Even those who don't have such disabilities
have individual differences and interests that should be respected. A scientific prodigy who may go on to cure
cancer or AIDS ought to be permitted to focus solely on science at least at certain levels of his or her education.
For every hour spent learning a foreign language there is an opportunity cost, something else not being mastered.
Of course, virtually everyone is in favor of a more global outlook, and virtually no one thinks that foreign
language study is bad. However, making foreign language instruction mandatory in every nation, at every level of
schooling, is unjustifiable. Different nations have different needs, and different individuals have their own
capacities and goals. Foreign language study can truly open the world to those who partake, but there are many
reasons not to mandate it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'to the best'.
Suggestion: to the best
... teachers should be free to decide how to best use the limited time available. Finall...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, however, if, look, may, so, still, while, at least, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2518.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 482.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22406639004 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83865953969 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52489626556 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 778.5 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 14.0 1.77640449438 788% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9849057789 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.47826087 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9565217391 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.69565217391 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 28.0 4.97078651685 563% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292400142713 0.243740707755 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0788162476601 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071643521834 0.0758088955206 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.069487539518 0.150359130593 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0738984268344 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.