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?
In recent decades, owing to cut throat competition, being multilingual has become the need of today’s global world. Nowadays, it has become a popular trend that children are forced to learn a foreign language at younger ages and some experts advocate that learning a second language at primary school brings more benefits than at secondary school, which constitutes a source of constant debate among parents. This essay will elaborate on both advantages and disadvantages before reaching to empirical conclusion.
On one hand, in terms of merits of learning a foreign language at primary school, it is worth mentioning that it is easier for a child to learn a second language in his or her earlier years. To enumerate, at the primary school, pupils do not have heavy school tasks to deal with and they can spare more time on language learning, which boost their efficiency of grasping a foreign language, while at secondary school, students are burdened with numerous disciplines, such as physics and biology, so they tend to distract their attentions form language study. Also, foreign language becomes a common language, as children at primary school are not deeply affected by their mother language and culture, since they just have a little knowledge of this world and their surroundings. In addition, children are known for better grasping power at this stage in their lives. Thus, it is the best time to shape their outlooks and develop their language ability.
On the paradoxical side, it is believed that some pupils at primary school may get confused by learning both native language and foreign language. In other words, children may struggle in proper usage of some words in native language or second language and they may mix both two languages in their formal speaking and writing, which may result in criticism from other people. Consequently, they often cannot learn both languages well. Furthermore, learning a foreign language at such a small age may, to some extent, reduce their culture identity which is often related to language study.
In the light of these facts on can conclude that the advantages of learning a second language at primary school outweigh its negative sides. Children are gifted with outstanding language ability in their early years, so they should make optimal use of their talents at the primary schools. Although, sometimes they may be confronted with confusions or difficulties in the process of learning, if guided well from teachers and parents, they can avoid adverse effects.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, furthermore, if, look, may, second, so, thus, well, while, in addition, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => 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: 2130.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 411.0 315.596192385 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18248175182 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64802477551 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515815085158 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 649.8 506.74238477 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.76152304609 252% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.9156777832 49.4020404114 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.0 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4 20.7667163134 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.434201948508 0.244688304435 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157257540948 0.084324248473 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110050908779 0.0667982634062 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271650891734 0.151304729494 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741380484339 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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