Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than in secondary school.
Traditionally, children begin studying a foreign language at secondary school, but nowadays educationalists recommend that it is better for children to start learning a new language while they are at primary school. From my perspective, second language acquisition is easier and more efficient at early ages. In this essay, I will elaborate on the reasons which my view is based on.
Firstly, the earlier you introduce a second language, the easier it will be for children to learn. Recent researches suggests that children between 5 and 9 years old are still learning their mother tongue, so their mind is programmed and ready to pick up a new language. For example my 6-year-old niece who is attending a German kindergarten in Tehran, speaks German as well as Persian, her mother tongue. Younger children are particularly better at learning the pronunciations; therefore it takes less effort to teach them to speak a second language.
Secondly, at primary school children have adequate time to spend on developing second language skills, while at secondary school they are busy with all the new and complicated lessons such as chemistry, physics, etc. The more classes they have, the less time they can devote to practicing foreign language, so it is not a good idea to start teaching a new language at higher-level school. Besides, primary school teachers have the opportunity to use play-centered approaches to encourage children to learn a second language and let them enjoy the games a casual learning environment while practicing language skills.
To sum up, I am of the opinion to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than in secondary school as it is more efficient and gives better educational outcomes.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, such as, as well as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => 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: 1459.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 282.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17375886525 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95776355941 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542553191489 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 506.74238477 89% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 50.5413667412 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.636363636 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6363636364 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.4545454545 7.06120827912 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.474249037373 0.244688304435 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.186330752132 0.084324248473 221% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.17611181033 0.0667982634062 264% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.335204916481 0.151304729494 222% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138999265049 0.056905535591 244% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => 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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