When people learn a foreign language, all four listening, reading, speaking, writing skills are equally important. To what extent do you agree or disagree?v
Some people are of the opinion that all four listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills are of equal significance in the process of learning a non-native language. Personally, I strongly agree with the notion because of their unique roles in different phases of the learning process.
On the one hand, listening and speaking skills are mainly needed when people start to learn a new language because of their formative roles. In fact, the two mentioned skills help to build the rudimentary command of the language in the beginning period. While listening makes the learners’ vocabulary broaden, speaking is a means of putting the acquired knowledge into practical use. Therefore, it is evident that speaking and listening skills are fundamental in the starting phase of the learning process.
On the other hand, writing and reading skills are of significant contribution to language proficiency after learners have gained a certain amount of knowledge. It is scientifically proven that the more you read, the easier you find it to learn new words and grammar structures, which in turn directly enrich and enlarge learners’ vocabulary. Besides, practicing writing can sharpen individuals’ ability to express themselves and put across their messages, helping to improve their communicating skills.
To conclude, despite controversial opinions on determining the importance of four listening, reading, speaking, writing skills, I endorse the idea that the given skills are of unique contributions to a person’s proficiency in a non-native language. While speaking and reading skills help learners gain fundamental understanding, the remaining skills hone their acquired command.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, if, so, therefore, while, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1440.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64705882353 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07063080631 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 176.041082164 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545098039216 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 432.9 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.7847317102 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.909090909 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1818181818 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06120827912 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332980550218 0.244688304435 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121579512461 0.084324248473 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653516139806 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191583076101 0.151304729494 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397476177794 0.056905535591 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.79 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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