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?
Although few pundits argue that a child has to learn a foreign language at primary school level, this is still debatable. We need to examine both sides of a coin such as the merits and demerits of studying a foreign language at primary school to derive a final conclusion.
The brownie points for people who believe that a new language needs to be learnt at school is that the children up-to age of seven are faster in picking up a language unknown to them. The process of learning language at a younger age will be quicker and easier. To illustrate, in a recent survey by ‘The National Herald’ quoted that, “The number of primary schools offering a foreign language to elect as a mandatory subject is seeing a phenomenal rise.” As is the case, it is always beneficial if the learning starts at an early age; learning language is no exception to this rule.
On the flip side, there are few disadvantages of learning foreign language at primary school. The students will be very young and they will still not be thorough with their first language. In such a scenario, expecting the child to learn another new language is definitely a greater ask. For instance, my neice who is just 8 years old has migrated from India to Germany and for her learning German has created a lot of confusion as to which language to speak where while her primary language is English. Therefore, there are few downsides of teaching foreign language at primary school level.
To conclude, with the globalization of the business market, it is for sure a long term benefit in teaching a foreign language to a kid at primary school level. Moreover, it will enable the child to concentrate more on major subjects at secondary school.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, moreover, second, still, therefore, while, as to, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => 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: 1435.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78333333333 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69272889257 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.523333333333 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 449.1 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.5642914173 49.4020404114 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.583333333 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.389414034951 0.244688304435 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171281506619 0.084324248473 203% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0922061641081 0.0667982634062 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.262937805115 0.151304729494 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0164277711976 0.056905535591 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 78.4519038076 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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.