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?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples fro

Nowadays, children start learning of a new language at middle school. Some educationists, however, think that it is better to begin the learning at an earlier age like in primary school. Both advantages and drawbacks can be found in this proposal.

Many evidences suggest that children at younger age have a superior language learning ability since their language system is still developing. At early age, they are more adaptable to a new language including its grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Also, the curriculum at primary school is less intense and more flexible than secondary school.

On the other hand, some drawbacks exist as well. Primarily, early contact with a new language may affect children’s learning of their mother tongue. Pronunciation and grammar may be mixed with their native language by children. Second, the allocation of educational resources and teaching facilities are imbalanced between cities and rural areas where primary schools may not have enough qualified teachers and facilities to start the language. Accent and incorrect pronunciation can be formed easily at early years of children if quality of the teaching cannot be provided.

Overall, although some drawbacks may exist, advantages of early exposure to a new language would over weigh them.

Votes
Average: 5.6 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, second, so, still, well, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 41.998997996 62% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1104.0 1615.20841683 68% => OK
No of words: 200.0 315.596192385 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.52 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76060309309 4.20363070211 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90473750966 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 176.041082164 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.615 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 342.9 506.74238477 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6546206954 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.0 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.259098273223 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103298647612 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694863953782 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169596938501 0.151304729494 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0869552488216 0.056905535591 153% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 50.2224549098 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.44 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 78.4519038076 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.