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?
Many people, myself included, agree with the point of view of some experts that primary school is the optimal place to start foreign language education, rather than secondary school. This essay aims at demonstrating the main reasons why I support this opinion.
It is common knowledge that starting foreign language learning at primary school has some disadvantages. One of them is that children may not have a good grasp in their own mother tongue. When exposed to foreign languages to early, some children may forgo learning their native tongue until they are fluent, opting to use their second language as their primary one instead. This barrier can cause a multitude of inconveniences in the family, especially if there are members of that family who are incapable of understanding the language.
However, there are many more reasons supporting the view that children should commence foreign language acquisition at primary school. First of all, younger children feel much less pressure when it comes to language learning. They think of it as a game, or a fun activity, rather than just another subject in school. However, secondary school students are much more likely to consider second languages just another subject in their curriculum. Thus, they have much less enthusiasm to learn them. Another reason is that primary school students can feel as comfortable speaking their second language as their own native tongue when they reach a high level in the language. Whereas grownups tend to be more mindful of the subtleties of a language, younger children tend to be more carefree and relaxed when speaking it. Therefore, they gain a better sense of comfort and get a better hold of it quicker.
In brief, even though exposing children to another language during their primary years rather than their secondary ones does have some drawbacks, it is the advantages that prevail.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, whereas, in brief, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => 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: 1592.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 307.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18566775244 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58663918795 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511400651466 0.561755894193 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 482.4 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5733863729 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.133333333 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4666666667 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.369131899434 0.244688304435 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130330977386 0.084324248473 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100831435358 0.0667982634062 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248938392007 0.151304729494 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555117736431 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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