It has recently been suggested that the classical, or “dead”, languages Greek and Latin should be re-introduced into the school curriculum.
Those that oppose the idea claim that the ancient languages are of no practical use and no help in getting job.
Those in favor of the idea say that education is more about training the mind than preparing for a career.
Which of these points of view do you most agree with? Support your argument, where possible, with reason and/ or examples from your own experience and observation
One of the main drawbacks in current educational system is that, it fails to nurture multilingual development skills in students. When the syllabus becomes too much focused on career aspirations, the cultural aspect of education tends to be forgotten. This essay will discuss the importance of re-introduction of traditional languages like Latin and Greek into the school curriculum.
It is often said that learning new languages is the window to understand new cultures and ethnic diversities. Especially in the case of students, ancient Greek and Latin literature can be great sources to read and understand how the old traditions differed from those in modern society. Studies show that young students, who studied legendary works in Greek and Latin mythologies excelled in multiple disciplines. This can be vital for the success of their education.
In this age of globalization, no career is isolated to a particular region. The more languages you know, the better you can perform business functions in multiple parts of the world. Introducing ancient languages in school curriculum can give students a good foundation to learn more languages in the future. This proves that introducing Greek and Latin in school syllabus can actually help in the career of students as well.
This essay discussed the benefits of learning Greek and Latin as part of the school curriculum. Students can not only just learn the languages, but also understand new cultures as well.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, so, well, you know
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.5418719212 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 6.10837438424 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1244.0 1207.87684729 103% => OK
No of words: 234.0 242.827586207 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31623931624 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95884548446 2.71678728327 109% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 139.433497537 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.580463131201 96% => OK
syllable_count: 374.4 379.143842365 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 3.0 1.56157635468 192% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.65517241379 27% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.5024630542 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.981528498 50.4703680194 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.6923076923 104.977214359 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 20.9669160288 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.30769230769 7.25397266985 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 6.9802955665 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221932105485 0.242375264174 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0796190721066 0.0925447433944 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686250123811 0.071462118173 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130794761722 0.151781067708 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463236471843 0.0609392437508 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 12.6369458128 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.1260098522 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.9458128079 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.28 11.5310837438 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.32886699507 108% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 55.0591133005 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.3980295567 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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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.