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 educators argue that children should study a foreign language before entering middle school. I agree with them, in that it is more important to focus on stimulating children in foreign languages as early as possible, but I also think just that is not enough.
It is said that the minds of children work like a sponge – they absorb most of the things they are taught easily. So, following this idea, the earlier a child faces a new language, the more he\she should remember. However, besides that, I have the strong belief that children who get a good first impression with a language will be more motivated in their studies. Consistency and motivation are the qualities that make studying a new language effective. Moreover, students should be told about other cultures and be encouraged to experience those cultures, maybe even going abroad on exchange later on.
Unfortunately, language leaning is not only a matter of time. In Japan, for example, where English is taught since kindergarten, teachers are under the misapprehension that “earlier” equals to “better results”. However, the reality is the opposite. Because they are forced to learn it from an early age, most of the students dislike English and reject it from childhood. I suppose the root of the problem might be found in their primary school’s studies where they were first introduced to it.
To conclude, unless a radical change will be made in teaching methods, the majority of children will not make any improvements. Even so, it is also crucial to start studying foreign languages since primary school, giving children more time to become more familiar with the language and motivating them to keep studying.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, may, moreover, so, even so, for example, i suppose
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 280.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16071428571 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89950514779 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.589285714286 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.938044279 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.214285714 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162360162481 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054335139159 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0524936952326 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109745631371 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047036421969 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => 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: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => 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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