Some high school teachers (teachers of students ages 14-18) spend most of class time lecturing (speaking) while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which of these two approaches do you think is more effective for students’ learning and why？
Since the origin, man has been trying to implement the best methods that are possible to improve learning efficiency of students. Today, most teachers wonder whether it would be better if they spend most of the class time lecturing while students listen and take notes or on discussions and projects that students involved in. In my opinion, teachers should involve students and let them exchange their ideas because unlike lecturing that is extremely boring, a discussion would be more efficient for teaching new things. Moreover, the discussion would decrease the possibility of making mistakes. I will illustrate my reasons in the following paragraphs.
First, a discussion would involve in all students and turn on their mind; thus, it helps students to learn better. In other words, a discussion allows all students to express their comments freely without being shy. Thus, they participate in the discussion and let their minds to get involved and learn new things. On the contrary, lecturing for students especially for students aged 14-18, having other important issues in their minds, would be boring. For example, I remember when I was 16, we have a physics course in which the teacher was always lecturing from beginning to the end of the class. Actually, it was completely boring for all of the students that seldom do students intend to attend his class. On the other side, we also have a mathematics course in which the teacher involved all students when he was teaching a new lesson. He insistently asked all students to state their opinion even for a simple question. Consequently, this method of teaching lets students ask their questions without any shy and also forces them to think about the things that the teacher is talking about. As a result, unlike the other class, all students attended the class interestingly that this helps them to get good scores in the final exam.
Second, the discussion would decrease the possibility of making mistakes. For sure, it could be possible that through a lecturing class, the teacher might make some mistakes and students note them without understanding them. Also, they might don’t mention the mistake even if they realize it because they may shy or they may not have enough confidence. As a result, they will learn something wrong. On the contrary, in a discussion atmosphere, all students get involved in the class and express their opinions and it would decrease the possibility of making mistakes. For example, when I was a student in high school, we were discussing an interesting problem with our teacher in the mathematics class. He had an opinion that some students thought he was wrong. Consequently, after some arguments, our teacher got convinced and thanked all students for involving the discussion and expressing his mistake. For sure, if he had not been let us exchange our opinions easily, we might not have been expressed our comments at all.
Based on the aforementioned reasons, it can be concluded that teachers should involve students and let them say their opinion by discussion in the class.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 108, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
... mind; thus, it helps students to learn better. In other words, a discussion allows al...
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Line 3, column 640, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... Actually, it was completely boring for all of the students that seldom do students intend...
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Line 5, column 231, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e them without understanding them. Also, they might don't mention the mistak...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, thus, while, for example, talking about, as a result, in my opinion, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2580.0 1977.66487455 130% => OK
No of words: 509.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06876227898 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6934658276 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440078585462 0.524837075471 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 756.9 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.1370452326 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.2 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.36 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72 5.45110844103 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344963553475 0.236089414692 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105706540195 0.076458572812 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0992077178419 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223149380898 0.150856017488 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0419862391253 0.0645574589148 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 11.7677419355 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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