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?
There is no doubt that acquiring knowledge of other nation’s language helps in the overall development of children. While few people think that elementary school is a good time and age to learn, others argue that foreign languages can also be studied in high school. I do not completely agree with these views and will support my explanation with relevant examples.
On the one hand, learning a foreign language at a later stage of life takes a lot more time and effort to accomplish. The reason is that, the teenagers are already mentally matured and burdened with competitive regular academics, which spares them no time to concentrate enthusiastically on secondary languages. For example, according to a report published in the UK newspaper in 2011, it highlighted a mediocre performance in foreign language exams by adolescent learners. However, young scholars should be motivated to learn other languages to build on brain networking and communication skills. As a result, they become more confident with clear career goals.
On the other hand, there are plenty of benefits in acquiring these skills at a tender age. This is because, the brain of young school pupils is proactive, which aid them to grasp the knowledge and retain it for a lifetime. For instance, in my own experience, I learned Spanish as a regular subject in primary school. Hence, it helped me intellectually as well as professionally to obtain a desired job in Spain. In contrast, an excess burden on young minds is observed. As a consequence, they tend to avoid this learning process due to monotony and boredom. Therefore, I believe that learning language at any level depends upon the motivation and neuro-cognitive development of a child and not stages of school
In conclusion, while the advantages of learning other republics’ language at a young age are explicit, we should also consider its drawbacks in the learning process.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, no doubt, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1611.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14696485623 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08836142617 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581469648562 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.2215153251 49.4020404114 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.4 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8666666667 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6666666667 7.06120827912 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.280479871072 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078528703669 0.084324248473 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680931075469 0.0667982634062 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161982281816 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442874811792 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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