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?
Learning a foreign language becomes mandatory in today’s society as the world has been globalized. Now the issue is whether teaching a foreign language from primary school or teaching students from secondary school once they mastered a mother tongue language. From my perspective, this matter has both pros and cons for some reasons as followed.
On the one hand, learning a new language at early age provides students numerous benefits. First of all, young children are very good in learning new subjects. It has been universally proven that young children grasp the subject matters, including learning new languages, really quickly. Therefore, when students are taught the foreign language at early age, they learn it naturally without any difficulties. Another advantage is that young children develop the correct accent of the language. It is true that those who learn a new language at the later age have significant problems with the accent, while those who learn earlier has outstanding accent of the foreign language.
On the other hand, learning a foreign language early has its drawbacks. Firstly, primary school students have had plenty of courses to study and tests to pass, and foreign language classes may put more stress on them. Furthermore, teaching foreign languages requires certain approaches and techniques that can arouse and maintain students' interest and make classes more productive, as well as teachers who are good at them.
To summarize, the advantages of learning a foreign language at an early age outweigh the disadvantages. Therefore, educationalists and the authority should search for methods to minimize the limitations.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, really, second, so, therefore, well, while, of course, as well as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 41.998997996 57% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 0.0 8.3376753507 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1411.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 259.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44787644788 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83404521605 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 176.041082164 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552123552124 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 506.74238477 83% => 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
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.573943584 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.785714286 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5714285714 7.06120827912 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314134142177 0.244688304435 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109134986068 0.084324248473 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0502981113103 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191445559776 0.151304729494 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301696460062 0.056905535591 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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