Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantage of this outweigh the disadvantages?
More and more students today choose foreign languages as their primary concern. In my opinion, studying a foreign language at primary school is better for children than learning in secondary school. It can bring about much more benefits for children compared to negative influences such as spending much time on second language and delaying the development of their first language.
Admittedly, there are several drawbacks when children learn a non-native language at primary schools. Firstly, studying a foreign language takes children a range of time learning, whilst other subjects are more important at that age. In other words, math, mother tongue language, science and art are learnt to boost children’s imagination as well as broaden their horizons. Secondly, the facts show that the earlier children are exposed to a new language, the more confused they are. If students spend much time on a second language, it will delay the development of children’s first language. They might mix the two languages after studying and are less likely to comprehend completely academic knowledge which is written in the textbooks.
Nevertheless, despite the disadvantages mentioned above, I believe that learning a second language could bring about far more benefits for young students. The main advantage is that young children are less self-conscious or shy, so they progress faster in their acquisition of a new language. They are not afraid of being judged by others when they make mistakes. Moreover, they pick up the pronunciation better without being guided through watching international television programs and TV shows. This means that they are able to imitate the sounds that they have heard accurately and naturally. Another benefit is that today languages are just as vital as math or science. The governments in many countries, for instance, take a second language subject into account as a main subject that is compulsory at primary school.
In conclusion, helping children be more confident and mastering a new language at an early age far outweigh any minor drawbacks that could result from learning a second language.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1813.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 337.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37982195846 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86979367417 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548961424332 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.2197257382 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.647058824 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8235294118 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.88235294118 7.06120827912 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.291343716469 0.244688304435 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0988074259285 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122259502535 0.0667982634062 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187119616776 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0830064834364 0.056905535591 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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