“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 widely believed that children should start to learn a foreign language in the first year of school rather than in secondary school. Despite some obvious disadvantages of this trend, I would argue that these are outweighed by the advantages.
On the one hand, there are two major drawbacks when providing children at primary school with knowledge of a foreign language. First, at this age, children have to learn their mother tongue. As a language is one of the paramount factors in representing cultural identity, children not only learn the national language but they also learn about the traditions and cultures of their mother countries. Second, approaching a new language too soon may put an extra burden on children which prompts them to be overloaded. For example, children are required to learn how to read, how to write, and all the basic knowledge in order to understand a higher level of lessons. Therefore, they do not have enough time for a new language. Besides that, there will be no free time for them to engage in outdoor activities as well as play with families.
On the other hand, I believe that benefits are far more than disadvantages. One reason for this view is that pupils learn new things quickly and have a long-lasting memory. Some researchers prove that the age between 4 and 8 is the best period to absorb new knowledge, as a result, the primary level is the most suitable time to grasp a foreign language. Another reason is that approaching a new language at a young age promotes juveniles’ cognitive competence and thus enhances their language ability. Consequently, children can have a stable base for upgrades and hence they will have dominance over partners in studying and performing as well.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the advantages of providing children at a very young age with a new language are more significant than the adversities.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, consequently, first, hence, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1586.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 321.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94080996885 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80449972354 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535825545171 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2946922339 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.733333333 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8 7.06120827912 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.379778280246 0.244688304435 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118368904323 0.084324248473 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0936346744794 0.0667982634062 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246703907833 0.151304729494 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121880447821 0.056905535591 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 78.4519038076 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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