Some people think it would help students to learn if teachers give time for discussion in class, others think that class discussion is unnecessary. What is your opinion and why
With considerable development of education, more children have the chance to study in school nowadays than in the past. And teaching methods have also change a lot thanks to the new technology, such as project and computer. Recently, an issue has come into focus that whether should teacher spend time on letting students to discuss in the class while there are a host of new methods to teach students. Some people support that the traditional method should be abandoned, and others hold the opposite idea. From my point of view, I support the latter one --never should the influence of discussion in class be ignored.
Admittedly, with the appearance of new devices, it seems that giving student time to argue for an issue is inefficient and they can obtain much more knowledge by watching educational video, listening academic lecture recording. However, there are a mount of advantages that cannot be achieved by using these so-called new technologies.
For one thing, students can gain a profound understanding about the knowledge by discussing it with their classmates. In details, when students learn a new concept, they may always feel puzzled about some parts. Different students may encounter different questions and they likely have distinctive understanding about the question. By communication with each other, they can always find a new method to solve the puzzle. For instance, when I was in high school, once in the math class, I was trying hard to solve a problem that my teacher just wrote down on the blackboard. He gave us ten minutes to find the solution. And maybe I was not in the condition that day, I could hardly figure out a little clue to solve it. Then I had to turn to my desk mate for help. He was extremely good at math, and he provided me with a new method that I never heard before. By having a discussion with my desk mate, I obtained something that I would never learned by myself. And I believe this case is not rare, in reality, frequently, many people have seen.
Furthermore, teachers can have a positive feedback from the student discussion, which benefits improving their teaching methods. Teacher cannot distinguish whether his or her teaching method is efficient if students never talk about their feelings. Only through the feedback from student, can a teacher figures out what is the best way to teach. For example, once a young teacher came to my class to teach us. Since he was new here and lacked experience, he did not know how to effectively convey his ideas to us. When he asked us to have a discussion about one concept, he walked around and heard our response. And we actually gave him some advises. He then promoted his way of teaching in the next class.
Based on the opinions above, despite of that due to some innovation in teaching, traditional discussion may seemly be a waste of time. I still hold the idea that discussion in class is crucial for enhancing understanding of knowledge and developing teaching method.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: hosts
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'while', 'as to', 'for example', 'for instance', 'such as', 'for one thing']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.208406304729 0.229887763892 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.16112084063 0.158761421928 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0665499124343 0.0866891130778 77% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0630472854641 0.046263068375 136% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0823117338004 0.0685040099705 120% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120840630473 0.118717715034 102% => OK
Participles: 0.0420315236427 0.0351676179071 120% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72274936245 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.031523642732 0.0309702414327 102% => OK
Particles: 0.00350262697023 0.00188951952338 185% => OK
Determiners: 0.0840630472855 0.0887237588012 95% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0262697022767 0.0209618222197 125% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.015761821366 0.0139019557991 113% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2986.0 2387.08602151 125% => OK
No of words: 510.0 408.028673835 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.85490196078 5.86048508987 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.48200974243 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.333333333333 0.338922669872 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.254901960784 0.251872472559 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.192156862745 0.174417080927 110% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.117647058824 0.112833075102 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72274936245 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523529411765 0.524397521467 100% => OK
Word variations: 63.1248572677 59.2087087015 107% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6684587814 135% => OK
Sentence length: 18.2142857143 20.5533526081 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.070775654 48.84282405 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.642857143 120.699889404 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2142857143 20.5533526081 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.535714285714 0.644075263715 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.5376344086 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.54480286738 54% => OK
Readability: 43.7044817927 45.7405998639 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.21142857143 1.45489161554 83% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275787674332 0.300154397459 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0899845200434 0.103427244359 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.064068808622 0.0752933317313 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.429107093518 0.497263757937 86% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148820494789 0.151897553556 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0876013724778 0.114077575197 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442272015325 0.0781384742642 57% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.261505092785 0.336927656856 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0620801732008 0.067059652881 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180073930143 0.210909579961 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424148779294 0.0618886996521 69% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8870967742 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.86379928315 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.91756272401 183% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 11.0 8.42114695341 131% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.4623655914 122% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.75985663082 254% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.6433691756 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.