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?
Nowadays, many people argue that it is advisable to start teaching children a foreign language at elementary school rather than secondary school. In my opinion, the fact that learning a new language at young age brings more advantages than disadvantages.
On the one hand, teaching a foreign language to primary school students creates a wide variety of benefits. To start with, young children are in more capability of enlarging their vocabulary than those in secondary school. Specifically, due to their young age, their memory is obviously better than secondary students. Besides, they have more time to study a foreign language than older students. Evidently, primary school students do not have to deal with as much homework, test, examination as students at secondary school, which means they are able to spend a large amount of time on learning a new language.
On the other hand, some arguments can be made that it is difficult to attach primary school students’ attention to the lessons. The main reason for this is that young children are too young to be aware of their duty to learn a foreign language. But closer examination would reveal that if a lesson is designed interestingly, young children will pay their full attention to their teacher and lessons. Moreover, some educationalists suggest parents and teachers to nurture their interest in learning a new language by letting them watch and listen to foreign videos and music, and using foreign language to talk with them in daily conversations.
Having considered all the arguments above, I would conclude that starting to teach a new language to children at primary school would enjoy more benefits overall.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, if, moreover, second, so, in my opinion, to start with, 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: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => 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: 273.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1684981685 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79763808198 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 176.041082164 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527472527473 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 434.7 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7695294918 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.583333333 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.75 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 7.06120827912 103% => 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: 0.394893487546 0.244688304435 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151498380135 0.084324248473 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746666523612 0.0667982634062 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251294930107 0.151304729494 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.084005126481 0.056905535591 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => 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: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 78.4519038076 71% => More difficult words wanted.
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: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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