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 foreign languages has become a popular trend recently, in some countries, it is a compulsory lesson at school and a standard before graduation. The dispute between some experts who believe that the beginning lessons are better for primary students while others think to start learning foreign languages at secondary school. In my opinion, each solution contains both advantages and disadvantages for children.
There are several benefits when children approach a new language at an early age at primary school. For the young children from age 4 to 10, it is a precious period to notice and gain new knowledge about the world, and their brain has developed strongly, therefore, they easily learn a new language like how they learn their mother tongue. In addition, parents and school don’t put any pressure on their children, so the lessons are transformed into songs, games, or plays, which does not only helps students remember vocabulary but also makes it fun and relaxing. In some special situations, genius students who have an up and coming future, foreign languages such as English skills will contribute to making the first impression whenever they enter a reputed high school or university.
On the other hand, a group of people considers secondary school is a better place for learning languages because of some disadvantages when starting too early. Primary students are too young to make a balance between studying their mother tongue and other languages. Moreover, the distraction can be anticipated if their schedule is full and they can not focus on other subjects, leading to a lack of rudimentary knowledge and bad results at school.
In conclusion, studying other languages is important when starting at the early stage with many helpful advantages. These outweigh the harmful effects, however, parents, schools, and individuals should diminish the disadvantages to their children.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1612.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3201320132 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76998176223 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600660066007 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 50.3545071358 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.333333333 106.682146367 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.25 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6666666667 7.06120827912 165% => 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 : 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: 0.409427191635 0.244688304435 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153205807415 0.084324248473 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115336670045 0.0667982634062 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.252792198476 0.151304729494 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142153348548 0.056905535591 250% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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