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?
It is believed that exposure to a second language at the very first stage of the learning process, particularly in elementary schools, seems to be more beneficial when compared to in secondary schools. In my view, I strongly support this idea. What is more, I am also of the opinion that the plus side of this notion overshadows the minuses.
Firstly, regarding the benefits, children appear to be better at absorbing the language. During the time when everything that seems just a bit unusual can arouse their curiosity, they are prone to be enthusiastic about something novel, which is the key to the successful learning process, especially when it comes to a language. Thanks to this, children not only become more likely to be fluent at a very young age but also can maintain that ability until adulthood. Take my student as a specific example. She is turning 7 years old now and started learning English when she aged 4 or 5. I guarantee that she can fully understand what I say in English and would be able to respond to me very well. This is a result of sufficient exposure and accurate ways of utilizing a child’s enthusiasm for learning.
On the other hand, the abundant amount of learning would lead to confusion. When children are confronted with too much knowledge and they have no idea what and how to take it all in, it is inevitable for them to get confused. If teachers do not take any action to maintain their students’ excitement, children might become frustrated and, even worse, refuse to get involved in the learning process. As a result, their language development is hindered, and they could not make any progress in the learning process unless there is a well-structured curriculum. My experience might best exemplify this. Back to the time when I was just a primary student, I had a whale of a time studying English. Then time went by, I felt that the lessons were no longer fascinating to me anymore and any English lesson is torturing me. Not until did I met my favorite teacher that my English level gradually increased.
Briefly, I firmly believe that children starting their language learning process at an early age would benefit them in their learning route later on. Even though there are several specific pros and cons of this idea, personally, I assume that its merits of this surpass its shortcomings. Letting children practice using the language at the first stage of the learning process will allow them to express themselves smoothly and maintain this ability until they mature.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, briefly, but, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, so, then, thus, well, as a result, in my view, what is more, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 57.0 24.0651302605 237% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2094.0 1615.20841683 130% => OK
No of words: 433.0 315.596192385 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.83602771363 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72130700033 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 176.041082164 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54272517321 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 656.1 506.74238477 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 5.43587174349 258% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.4690168807 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.7142857143 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.619047619 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52380952381 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.179883093789 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523372209243 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415428190968 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11946723904 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329094550153 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => 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: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.