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?
Understanding foreign language has become a necessity nowadays. Some experts are of the view that youngsters should learn this language at elementary school instead of high school. This essay will discuss the merits and demerits associated with this opinion and clearly show, indeed, that it is essential to integrate this language at primary school level.
There are many benefit associated with learning foreign language in elementary school. Firstly, children will learn this language more quickly. This is because they are in their formative years and any language they teach them at this stage can be grasp effortlessly. Take Nigeria for example, most private basic schools usually teach youngsters French language apart from the local language that is common among them. Consequently, this makes these children to be better users of this international language. Secondly, it allows children to learn the culture of other people. The culture of any country is usually reflected in their language. Learning this at an early age makes youngsters to understand the way of life of other culture and integrate it into their lifestyle thereby making them to identify with people who speak this foreign language. For instance, understanding English language will enable children to know how they exchange pleasantries in the United Kingdom and how they communicate as well. Undoubtedly, these two benefits will be extremely advantageous for children
Despite some merits, there are some drawbacks youngsters can suffer. One of them is that their indigenous language acquisition may suffer setback. In other words, they may not be able to understand or speak their local language fluently and this can lead to extinction of such language. This is very common in Nigeria as many children do not understand their mother’s tongue anymore as they being taught in foreign language. Another disadvantage of this is children inability to freely choose which foreign language to learn since they still young and their parents make decision for them. This can have severe consequences on children later in life as they seek for employment opportunity because they can not communicate their indigenous language that local people understand. However, these two drawbacks pale in comparison to the merits this foreign language offers.
In conclusion, this essay discussed the benefits and demerits of international language. In my opinion, although learning foreign language has its own disadvantages, the merits clearly supersede the drawbacks.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, apart from, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 24.0651302605 216% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2151.0 1615.20841683 133% => OK
No of words: 391.0 315.596192385 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50127877238 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78257813659 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478260869565 0.561755894193 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 657.9 506.74238477 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => 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: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7833772907 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.428571429 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.619047619 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.90476190476 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.339343711411 0.244688304435 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118270876267 0.084324248473 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740150575938 0.0667982634062 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225877380379 0.151304729494 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0936711545298 0.056905535591 165% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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