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 China, English is a compulsory course in primary school, and most children have to acquire this foreign language around 5 or 6 years old. Therefore, they might have a solid foundation about English when they start attending high school. However, is it more advantageous for children to learn a foreign language in a very young age? As far as I'm concerned, the bilingual teaching method, starting in elementary school rather than secondary school, has more merits than its demerits, and let me illustrate my opinion as follows.
To begin with, it is true that some parents might have the doubt that learning a foreign language would undermine children's academic work on other subjects. What I'm trying to say is that students have a wide range of fundamental courses like Maths, Literature and etc in primary school, and their efforts on these courses might be weaken if they still need to acquire a foreign language. In short, parents might question the necessity of bilingual teaching in primary school.
Nevertheless, I thinks there are a massive amount of advantages when it comes to teaching foreign languages in elementary school. Firstly, children could learn the time management in an extremely young age, and it will also benefit for their future development. As I've mentioned, adding the course of a foreign language is actually increasing time spent on academic work, and thereby children have to manage their time efficiently in order to achieve comprehensive development. Briefly, teaching foreign language in primary school could urge children to organize their limited time effectively.
For another angle, applying bilingual teaching method earlier is better for children's understanding towards many other aspects. To be specific, it is commonly accepted that learning a foreign could strengthen our perception on other disciplines like literacy, pure science because some subjects stem from other countries. Throughout learning these languages, children might have the ability to consider what has been taught in a profound ground like the native word for a specialized term. To sum up, it has a deeper influence for children to learn foreign languages in primary school.
In conclusion, children could benefit a lot through bilingual teaching since primary school instead of secondary school, albeit to a couple of opposite opinions from parents. By the way, they could not only obtain time managing capability, but also learn the thinking patterns originating from other languages. This could also be reflected by an old saying 'knowledge is not a burden'.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, briefly, but, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, then, therefore, i think, in conclusion, in short, by the way, it is true, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2178.0 1615.20841683 135% => OK
No of words: 409.0 315.596192385 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32518337408 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79167928988 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530562347188 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 662.4 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.6221793382 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.0 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7222222222 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6111111111 7.06120827912 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378250470773 0.244688304435 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134305147023 0.084324248473 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0812184303394 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219715015382 0.151304729494 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0624219021019 0.056905535591 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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