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 the era of globalisation and immigration, it is important to be welcoming towards people from different cultures and languages. Language especially plays a vital role since that is how we interact with one another. This is something for which a person can be prepared in advance by the means of including linguistic courses at various levels of education.

The kids at the primary school level can really surprise us when it comes to learning new things. Hence, the earlier language courses are introduced, the better. The students are much more open to new experiences at primary level as compared to the secondary level. The students of NCERT, an education board responsible for maintaining curriculum at levels below secondary has included several local languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit as well as foreign like German and French. It also feels easier to pick a new language at an early age as the workload is quite less compared to a senior student. The inclusion of a new language also develops lateral thinking of a person so it is also contributing to overall personality and brain development.

The student varies their priorities as they grow with the ones in secondary school are more concerned about their future as they finish schooling. During that time, many parents also believe the focus of a sciences stream student should remain over preparing for the college entrance exams and scoring well in the final exams. Students hesitate to choose an optional language course which increases their workload so it’s a moot point to introduce the course at the secondary stage.

Knowledge of a foreign language, however, adds value to a person’s skills irrespective of when it is introduced. The courses can be introduced at a higher level but being pragmatic about it, only a few students are going to opt for it which discourages the school to hire a language teacher for a small number of students. That being said, it is more advantageous to learn it outright during the primary level. Things we learn at a younger age stays with us for a long time.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, really, second, so, well, as for, such as, as well as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1746.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 351.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97435897436 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78247101515 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549857549858 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 2.52805611222 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6401943877 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.125 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9375 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06120827912 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => 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: 0.22927560373 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0756852580549 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417777542099 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135951666968 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0508377554606 0.056905535591 89% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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