Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Experts have different views regarding an appropriate age to learn a foreign language. There are benefits and drawbacks associating with children learning a foreign language at a primary school rather than secondary school. I personally believe that the advantages of learning a second language at a younger age outweigh disadvantages.
Children are encountered with a number of compulsory subjects such as mother tongue language, mathematics and science when they begin primary school. When they are still in a process of learning words and grammar in their first language, picking up a foreign la...
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Sentence: For example, learning Korean and English at the same time can difficult to young children because the grammar structure of these two languages are different.
Description: A modal auxillary is not usually followed by an adjective
Suggestion: Refer to can and difficult
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No. of Different Words: 135 200
Sentence Length SD: 4.787 7.5
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6.5 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 270 350
No. of Characters: 1394 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.054 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.163 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.839 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.787 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.452 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.635 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.128 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5