Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
There is no doubt that spending at least one semester studying in a foreign country would benefit college and university students. In fact, having international experiences can help students developing a more tolerant attitude towards different cultures, it can broad the horizons and increase the level of autonomy. However, there are some practical issues that doesn't permit that this experience is mandatory, remaining only as a recommendation. In this essay, we will address both the benefits related to studying abroad and the difficulties of implementing such a requirement.
First of all, several studies had shown that people who travel more and have more contact with different cultures develop a more tolerant attitude towards different cultures, traditions and histories. In an increasingly globalised world, tolerance is a behavior that should be encourage in every experience. Travelling around the world, understanding that some things that we could think as natural are in fact culturally produced, and having contact with distinct people and places is an important experience for broadening students horizons.
Another aspect that can be develop during an exchange program is the level of autonomy. In general, students in college are still living with their parents and have less responsibilities. However, after moving country, students are by their own. They should learn how to survive without their parents attention. This experience is important to developing professionals with more autonomy and ensuring that we don't have a generation of lazy people.
Studying abroad can also be an opportunity for learning and improving language skills. Specially for those choosing countries with different native languages, the semester abroad is a perfect occasion for strengthening language skills. In line with the first reason, language skills can also be an important factor in producing more tolerant human beings.
In spite of all the benefits, we argue that spending a semester abroad should not be mandatory. There are some technical and practical issues that make the implementation of such policy very challenging. The more clear one is the funding. Who would be responsible for funding the semester abroad? The parents that are already paying universities tuition or the educational institutions that do not have this kind of money? Another aspect that should be taken into account is the differences between the programs. Are the subjects the same? Who can attest that the subjects are similar in different countries?
Therefore, I argue that spending a semester abroad should be encourage by parents, educational institutions and students itself. However, before this can become a graduation requirement some technical and practical issues should be address.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 58.6224719101 65% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2376.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 425.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59058823529 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97503708796 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498823529412 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 737.1 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.9538778411 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.04 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241136073171 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0684128884151 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953669573984 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12557710529 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0691474572692 0.0667264976115 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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