In some countries, schools are teaching foreign languages to primary school children. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
In some nations, schools are imparting foreign languages to primary students. While I admit that this phenomenon can be disadvantageous to some extent, I strongly believe that it is more likely to have positive impacts.
On the one hand, there is a main notable downside to teaching primary students foreign languages. It stands to the reason that studying foreign languages at an early age can make children learning their mother tongue more difficult. Citizens who are too young might not have a high level of proficiency in speaking and writing their native language due to the lack of experience and practice. Furthermore, when concentrating on learning a different language, primary students might not gain enough access to the usage of their native tongue because they might have to allocate most of their time practicing different languages. This means that young children are likely to misunderstand their first language, thereby reducing the ability to differentiate between their mother tongue and those foreign languages which have been learned.
However, I would argue that the benefits of teaching foreign languages to young citizens surpass the aforementioned drawback. The first advantage is that primary students can gain valuable insights into different cultures. Equipping children with knowledge about foreign languages can enable them to expand their horizons of cultural understanding, since doing so, primary students can exposure to a multicultural environment. This could able them to make friends with foreigners who are their peers, thereby expanding their social circle and enhancing their confidence when traveling to other countries. Another benefit is that young citizens’ career prospects can be enhanced. When students learn different languages at a young age, they can have a high level of proficiency in global languages in the years to come. This means that primary students after growing up are more likely to be recruited than others who just use their mother tongue. Such superior opportunities to work at big companies or organizations can enable them to gain access to well-paid jobs in the future.
In conclusion, after weighing the pros and cons, I would say that the disadvantage of teaching foreign languages to primary students is overshadowed by the positive effects.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, so, well, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => 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: 1967.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 360.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46388888889 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88770141193 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508333333333 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 602.1 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.979118419 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.9375 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.9375 7.06120827912 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261053678234 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0987990162482 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0873254434309 0.0667982634062 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19226658793 0.151304729494 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644468250211 0.056905535591 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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