The charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010. Summarise the information, report main features and make comparison where necessary
The two tables indicate the percentages of university students in the UK who can speak different languages beside English between the years 2000 and 2010.
In general, it can be seen that the majority of students in England can speak more than one language during the period shown. Among the languages mentioned in the tables, Spanish was the most widely used language, while French and German were among the least.
As displayed in the tables, there were about 80% of university students who can speak more than one language in 2000, and the percentage rose to 90% in 2010. In addition, British students can speak Spanish the most with the percentage accounted for 30% in 2000 and 35% in 2010. The figures of those who can speak one or two other languages increased over the 10-year period, up to 20% and 15% respectively in 2010.
On the other hand, the proportion of students who can only speak English declined from 20% in 2000 to only 10% in 2010. Furthermore, French and German were among the least used languages, with roughly about 10% for each figures in 2010.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, while, in addition, in general, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 1.00243902439 698% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 3.15609756098 158% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 33.7804878049 107% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 892.0 965.302439024 92% => OK
No of words: 187.0 196.424390244 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77005347594 4.92477711251 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41521860417 2.65546596893 91% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 106.607317073 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486631016043 0.547539520022 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 253.8 283.868780488 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 14.8655432124 43.030603864 35% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 111.5 112.824112599 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.375 22.9334400587 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 5.23603664747 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.09268292683 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289336862627 0.215688989381 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147582144849 0.103423049105 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.069410300783 0.0843802449381 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195114095718 0.15604864568 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0526664304936 0.0819641961636 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.2329268293 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 11.4140731707 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.39 8.06136585366 92% => OK
difficult_words: 31.0 40.7170731707 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.4329268293 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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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.