Is the only reason for learn languages is to travel and work overseas or not. Discuss both views.

the purpose of travelling and working overseas

Travel overseas or working in an international environment are supposed by some people to be the sole reason for studying other languages. However, others argue that they are not the main excuse for this activity. From my point of view, the former opinion is not completely correct, since learning languages has a lot of advantages, which make people decide to master them.

On the one hand, it is undeniable that the opportunities of traveling and working in a foreign country is one of the reasons for learning languages. The ability to speak other languages fluently, especially English, Chinese,... gives you the chance to go abroad or become employees of oversea or multinational entrepreneurs and helps you get a brighter future since you can broaden your horizon and show off your talents. What's more, those companies are also famous for excellent facilities, high salary and good compensation, which make people want to study languages in order to work there.

However, the aforementioned thing isn't the aim of all learners. Personally, I think that the core function of languages is making communication become easier for those who come from different countries. For that reason, many people start learning another language with an aim of interacting more effectively with their counterparts, partners or making new friends. Moreover, in this globalization era, more and more documents are written in some common languages. As a result, the ability to understand these languages can help humans be exposed to a variety of knowledge all over the world. For example, university students tend to search for materials in English since most of the research results have English versions.

In conclusion, even though going and working overseas is a driving force for some people when learning new languages, it is not the only one purpose since benefits of being multilingual are countless, which results in many other aims.

The writer shows incorrect punctuation usage in the presentation. Any student of written English knows that the basic punctuation rule is that these have to be used one at a time. These cannot be used successively, as in a comma then ellipses, because each punctuation mark delivers a different emphasis and meaning for the presented sentence. When these are consecutively used, GRA deductions will apply since the reader will not be clear as to what the actual meaning of the sentence is. Is it a statement or a continued listing of information? Such confusing considerations will hinder the ability of the writer to create coherent and cohesive sentences. This is a common problem found among ESL learners who do not seem to pay attention to the punctuation mark usage lessons in their ESL classes.

As for the discussion itself, the comparison of the public opinion against the writer's personal opinion is not properly identified in the discussion. Grammar rules regarding position clarity are not applied when the main discussion format is not used. The discussion format required being "public v. personal opinion" discussed over 2 paragraphs. The main writing should be indicative of public support that one opinion and why the writer opposes it and public support for the contrasting opinion and why the writer supports it. General discussion presentations, though accepted in the test, limit the scores that can be awarded due to the lack of opinion separation and discussion development.