Language teachers should concentrate on giving positive feedback to students when they do goodwork, rather than on criticising bad work.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Learning and teaching languages have become a major part of education in many countries. For this reason, there are two approaches to deal with language learners' learning outcomes with either reinforcing their good responses or directing sharp criticism to their bad responses to be avoided. As an educator, I support the first point of view that is based on reinforcement of correct responses.
First, giving a positive feedback would enhance the students' linguistic performance in terms of the four skills. Also, by highlighting what is correct, the language teacher, in this case, is giving the students a clue about what should they model to be better. To support this opinion, there is a research, which was conducted in 2008, revealed that 70% of English language learners prefer to get support for their correct pronunciation to stick to this pronunciation rather that being criticized because of their slips. Moreover, this study asserts that if language tutors insist on magnifying their learner's errors, this may frustrate the students to an extent that they may quit language courses. That's why providing the students with constructing feedback is an ideal alternative to criticism to enhance the students' linguistic skills.
Likewise, constructive feedback may be a better choice for language instructors because it starts by providing the learner with his/her good point and ends with the points of enhancements. Actually, in that way, the teacher may avoid the negative effects of criticism as constructive feedback is using a sort of euphemism. To exemplify, an Arabic as a foreign language learner who is fluent in speaking, but he/she is facing learning difficulties in writing due to mother tongue interference, shall be satisfied if the teacher supports his/her oral performance and speaking skill rather than mocking his/her writing. So this kind of feed might be found as effective in lowering the students affective filter.
To conclude, I would say that language educators are addressed to direct the students' attention to what they excel and not what they lack. In my opinion, this would be the best method of teaching that may break the ice between the learners and learning a language.this reason, there are two approaches to deal with language learners' learning outcomes with either reinforcing their good responses or directing sharp criticism to their bad responses to be avoided. As an educator, I support the first point of view that is based on reinforcement of correct responses.
First, giving a positive feedback would enhance the students' linguistic performance in terms of the four skills. Also, by highlighting what is correct, the language teacher, in this case, is giving the students a clue about what should they model to be better. To support this opinion, there is a research, which was conducted in 2008, revealed that 70% of English language learners prefer to get support for their correct pronunciation to stick to this pronunciation rather that being criticized because of their slips. Moreover, this study asserts that if language tutors insist on magnifying their learner's errors, this may frustrate the students to an extent that they may quit language courses. That's why providing the students with constructing feedback is an ideal alternative to criticism to enhance the students' linguistic skills.
Likewise, constructive feedback may be a better choice for language instructors because it starts by providing the learner with his/her good point and ends with the points of enhancements. Actually, in that way, the teacher may avoid the negative effects of criticism as constructive feedback is using a sort of euphemism. To exemplify, an Arabic as a foreign language learner who is fluent in speaking, but he/she is facing learning difficulties in writing due to mother tongue interference, shall be satisfied if the teacher supports his/her oral performance and speaking skill rather than mocking his/her writing. So this kind of feed might be found as effective in lowering the students affective filter.
To conclude, I would say that language educators are addressed to direct the students' attention to what they excel and not what they lack. In my opinion, this would be the best method of teaching that may break the ice between the learners and learning a language.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, likewise, may, moreover, so, kind of, sort of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 13.1623246493 274% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 7.85571142285 280% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 7.30460921844 274% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 74.0 24.0651302605 307% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 41.998997996 219% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3664.0 1615.20841683 227% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 692.0 315.596192385 219% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29479768786 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12892706869 4.20363070211 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87234384839 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.271676300578 0.561755894193 48% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1057.5 506.74238477 209% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.76152304609 294% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 16.0721442886 162% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.7110700252 49.4020404114 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.923076923 106.682146367 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6153846154 20.7667163134 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.53846153846 7.06120827912 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.38176352705 160% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.01903807615 199% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 8.67935871743 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18909820525 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0767603371335 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631335471513 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119972028502 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0564026297726 0.056905535591 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 50.2224549098 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.89 8.58950901804 80% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
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.