Some experts believe that is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Traditionally, children have started learning a foreign language at secondary school. However, some educational institutions include foreign language lessons in a curriculum for primary school pupils. This development has already shown its benefits and shortcomings.
To begin with, children at an early age are capable to pick up different languages easier and faster than in their teenage period. This is because children's mother tongue has not settled down and is still being developed. Therefore, it is a perfect time to include a foreign language in an educational process. The flexibility of the primary school curriculum there is advantageous. Educators can include a few short sessions of different languages in a game form. This approach allows pupils to enjoy the learning process and stay focused, enthusiastic and motivated all day long. In addition, it is undoubted that being bilingual as a child enhances the ability to learn other languages as an adult. Indeed, studying languages at primary school also improves children's understanding of other cultures and their desire to obtain knowledge.
Nevertheless, there are some disadvantages as well. First of all, subjects at primary school usually are held by one teacher for a group. Unfortunately, most teachers have limited skills and knowledge of foreign languages. Therefore, schools have to hire additional educators for language lessons. This can affect a school's budget and the flexibility of the curriculum. Another noticeable drawback there is the diversity of languages and their different levels which children bring to secondary school. Pupils have difficulties continuing studying language after primary school and, as a result, they can lose interest in it. In fact, the possibility to lose schedule flexibility and children's motivation to study languages should be taken into account in this case.
In conclusion, foreign language lessons at primary school have numerous advantages and a few serious drawbacks. Undoubtedly, studying languages at an early age is more beneficial than disadvantageous. In my opinion, the shortcomings can be worked out to give children the opportunity to become more successful adults.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, therefore, thus, well, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, as a result, first of all, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => 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: 1869.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.61261261261 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10323419917 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546546546547 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.2647551193 49.4020404114 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 84.9545454545 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.1363636364 20.7667163134 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.90909090909 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395184750602 0.244688304435 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118465750407 0.084324248473 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0689385460358 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268631567096 0.151304729494 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570884469122 0.056905535591 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.33 50.2224549098 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.