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?

The belief of some experts that learning a foreign language at primary school has many disadvantages to it as compared to it's advantages. The main disadvantage to it is that kids can feel pressurized from introduction of a new subject in the form of a language.

To elaborate further, children in the primary school have just started with their learning path. Their prime focus is on reading, writing, speaking and understanding of basic instructions that are needed in day-to-day activities. Moreover, they also acquire knowledge of colours, numbers and basic mathematics skills. That is, the education at primary level is driven by concept based learning. So, exposing children to a foreign language can put additional pressure of learning and performing on an alien subject.

In continuity, the notion of learning a new language can also hamper their learning path of acquiring necessary skills like reading, writing, identifying colours and doing basic mathematics like addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. This can lead to stage where their confidence is shaken badly and they are not able to face their teachers, friends or even parents as well.

In contrary to above, the advantage of starting early at school can mean that children are familiar with the foreign language at an early stage and by the time they reach secondary school they are confident and mature enough to understand the nitty-gritty of the subject.

Lastly, introduction of a foreign language at an early stage has it's own repercussions with young children. Utmost attention and care should be given to prepare and help them in dealing with day-to-day activities. Learning of a new language can be introduced during later part of schooling when they are grown enough to understand that learning a new language will actually help them in the longer run.

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Average: 8.4 (3 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, if, lastly, moreover, second, so, well

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1559.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24915824916 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93972753534 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52861952862 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 473.4 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2815118309 49.4020404114 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.923076923 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8461538462 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15384615385 7.06120827912 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => 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: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29134743606 0.244688304435 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105727355332 0.084324248473 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105896373234 0.0667982634062 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176266121811 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0700467213313 0.056905535591 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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