Certificates in foreign languages such as IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC have become more popular than ever before, and many schools consider them an advantage for enrollment. Do you think this is a positive or negative trend?
International English certificates such as IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC are becoming increasingly popular at all levels of education, and they have even become a key to prestigious high schools and universities in many parts of the world. In my opinion, this trend can be considered to be both positive and negative.
On the one hand, getting an internationally recognized certificate at any cost puts pressure on both parents and students. In fact, the fee for taking these exams is very high, up to several million dongs, not to mention a significant cost that parents and students have to spend to attend extra classes. This will become a financial burden for economically unstable families. Moreover, the popularization of such academic exams invisibly exerts negative influences on students with average and weak academic performances because they are expected to continuously complete mock tests in a very limited time to be well-prepared for the real exam. In addition, these tests are intended to assess students’ ability to use language in a variety of areas that high-school students have never approached or studied in-depth, such as medicine, art, archaeology, and business. Therefore, the probability of achieving the desired goal is very low, and not having good results might lead to some psychological disorders among teenagers/adolescents such as depression or the feeling of inferiority complex with friends.
On the other hand, such exams could be regarded as a great motivation and an advantage for the young. First, they become a lever for students to make their dreams come true. In fact, many universities give special favor to candidates with international English certificates, which means students are directly enrolled without having to take any entrance exams, saving their time and travel costs. Second, the selection of students who are excel at foreign languages will create favorable conditions for learning activities in an international environment. RMIT University is a perfect example. In addition to lessons, namely psychology and history, with local teachers, students have the opportunity to study with native professors. Accordingly, if students do not have the ability to use English well, the acquisition of knowledge will become more overwhelming.
To conclude, even though organizing such academic examinations can create stress for some students, I would argue that it is more beneficial for teenagers in particular and the education system in general in the era of integration.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 432, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
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Line 5, column 440, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'excelled'.
Suggestion: excelled
...cond, the selection of students who are excel at foreign languages will create favora...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, well, in addition, in fact, in general, in particular, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2143.0 1615.20841683 133% => OK
No of words: 391.0 315.596192385 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48081841432 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19139571961 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 176.041082164 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590792838875 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 506.74238477 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.0104525757 49.4020404114 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.9375 106.682146367 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4375 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5625 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.263679414504 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0791405354482 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489234515376 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159218608528 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650565049904 0.056905535591 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.0946893788 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 50.2224549098 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 78.4519038076 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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