Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. (b) Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.
Distance learning has been a worldwide tendency in recent years. While it is true that online classes bring about enormous benefits to learners, I believe that the trend has far more drawbacks which are worth considering.
It is undeniable that learners derive considerable benefits from online learning. First and foremost, the courses, in which students can partake on the Internet, allow a variety of learners from far distance. A huge numbers of children in remote areas, where they have limited access to education, are given the opportunity to participate classrooms. What is more, several useful skills can be learnt via online learning. In order to fulfill teachers’ demand, students learn to write and send emails, as well as to use word processor to write a report and make presentations. These skills are highly essential for them in the future. Additionally, distance learning may help learners with financial pressure due to the reduction in study expense such as housing, food, transport and the like. Without financial concern, they can have more concentration on their study instead of taking various part-time jobs to cover their daily cost.
Nevertheless, there is no shortage of disadvantages of studying online that need to be taken into careful consideration. First, the tremendous reliance on computers may be associated with learners’ degradation of interpersonal skills which is a real challenge for language teachers to design speaking lessons. Moreover, students, especially very young learners, may suffer from spelling and pronunciation mistakes due to the lack of interaction with teachers and friends. Another negative point is technical mishaps that may occur regularly in online classrooms. The unstable transmission and power shortage can result in missed lessons and a number of difficulties in teaching listening skills. Poor quality of sound also leads to students’ unpleasantness and loss of concentration during the hours of online learning.
In conclusion, the abovementioned explanation has addressed the pros and cons which can be a dilemma when people evaluate the effectiveness of distance learning. Personally, I think its pros can never overshadow its cons; therefore, people should be cautious to minimize the negative impacts of this new learning trend.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, while, as to, i think, in conclusion, such as, as well as, it is true, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 354.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53107344633 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07370595447 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610169491525 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 592.2 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => 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: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9107138184 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.777777778 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129570657337 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0384214841463 0.084324248473 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0282162902442 0.0667982634062 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0714738899603 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329023756524 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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