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?
In recent decades, owing to cut throat competition, being multilingual has become the need of today’s global world. Nowadays, children are forced to learn a foreign language at younger ages. It is advocated that learning a second language at primary school brings more benefits than at secondary school, which has become a hot topic among parents. This essay elaborates both advantages and disadvantages before reaching to empirical conclusion.
On one hand, learning a foreign language at primary school provides numerous benefits to children. First of all, ease of learning a second language in earlier years. To enumerate, at the primary school, there is no stress of voluminous curriculum and time can be spared time for boosting student’s efficiency of grasping a foreign language, while at secondary school, numerous disciplines, such as physics and biology stress and distract learners from language study. Secondly, new language becomes a common language. Small children are not deeply affected by their mother language and culture, with little knowledge of this world and surroundings they easily inculcate new language. In addition, children have better grasping power at this stage, so it is the best time to shape outlooks and develop language ability.
On the paradoxical side, language learning at an early age has some drawbacks too. One of them which cannot be given ‘Nelson’s eye’ is confusion faced while learning different languages simultaneously. In other words, children struggle in proper usage of words and probably mix both languages in formal speaking and writing, resulting in criticism from other people. Consequently, they fail to learn both languages well. Furthermore, learning a foreign language at such a small age diminishes the cultural identity which is related to language study.
In the light of these facts on can conclude that the advantages of learning a second language at primary school outweigh its negative sides. Children are gifted with outstanding language abilities in their early years, so they should make optimal use of their talents at the primary schools. Although, sometimes they may be confronted with confusions or difficulties in the process of learning, but it can be avoided by good guidance from teachers and parents.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, in addition, such as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1959.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 356.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50280898876 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95876401508 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561797752809 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.9692340709 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.833333333 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7777777778 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.72222222222 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 0.393274610362 0.244688304435 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129012627032 0.084324248473 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0944997386607 0.0667982634062 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246245452103 0.151304729494 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741120313578 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => 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: 14.62 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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