100 Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
At present, studying in a foreign country has been rather popular among college and university students with the increasingly collaboration and communication between countries. Should colleges and universities require every student to study in a foreign country at least one semester? In my view, the speaker makes the statement unfairly with some omission. I agree in so far as studying abroad is beneficial to some students if this policy carried on by universities and colleges. Yet, in some cases, this recommendation will produce negative effects to some students.
Admittedly, to some students, implementing the policy will definitely bring advantages. First off, a foreign country, which seems be totally different from a student's motherland, with diversity of cultures and customs. Thus, students filled with curiosity are eager to learn the difference, at the same time, their horizons are also broadened. Second, due to the discrepancy of cultures and backgrounds of education, usually students from different countries have various opinions as to one issue. Students from other countries can exchange ideas with local students so that they all enhance their knowledge as well as reap camaraderie. Last but not least, independence of students who study other countries will absolutely be improved. A foreign student confronts an acquainted surrounding by himself, he has no choice but solve all sort of problems he may encounter without help from his parents and good friends. After all, one person must be independent at last. In this light, studying in foreign countries indeed is advantageous.
However, to some students, studying in a foreign country would pose some problems. In the first place, some students who are introverted and not good at communication, if he steps into a strange environment, he will become more reticent and afraid to talk with unfamiliar people. He may feel lonely, be fed up with everything strange and miss his families too much to concentrate on learning; these negative emotions will eventually be detrimental to his study. In the second place, due to discrepancy of body conditions, some students do not adept to unique climate in foreign countries. Take my cousin as an example. She studies in Beijing, China
, whose weather is dry and cold. When she was exchanged to Singapore at her junior semester in university for one semester, she did not adjust the climate with humidification so that she always was sick in Singapore. In the third place, even to a well-adapted student, it costs much money for learning abroad, in the meanwhile, increasing the family burden. After all, not all students are able to afford the high expense, a few of them actually rely on debt and scholarship studying in universities and colleges. From this point, this policy is not applied to all students considering its limits.
In fact, schools should provide opportunities to students who are suitable and able to afford expense, although it is unrealistic to require every student to study abroad. After all, students have all kinds of characteristics. It is advisable for them to choose the optimum method not the popular approach when it comes to surrounding of studying.
To sum up, the speaker does not sufficiently take merits and weakness of this policy of implement into consideration. As far as I am concerned, the executors of the policy should analysis case by case before implementation. They shouldenact different schemesto each student to judge whether the one may be adept to the unfamiliar surroundings.
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发表于 2012-2-24 12:06:21
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