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?
It is considered by some authorities that learning a foreign language should be started at primary school instead of secondary school. However, in my opinion, this can cause more problems compared to any advantages it might bring.
Admittedly, students have some basic benefits to be taught a second language before entering secondary school. Firstly, they can provide much more time on practicing and become fluent sooner. In other words, elementary school's curriculum is likely to be less occupied by the core subjects such as mathematics, science, and technology. Therefore, younger children could spend enough time on a foreign language course, which accelerates their learning procedure. Secondly, in many cases, younger children would be considered more confident in learning than older ones. As a result, they would learn and speak freely without any shyness and fear of mistaking.
Nevertheless, despite the advantages above, learning another language at lower grades has some severe drawbacks. One potential problem would be that primary school have to pay some excess costs such as specialist teachers' salaries. This, in turn, may put them under pressure to allocate the budget of other sectors for this aim, which may lead to a decrease in educational qualities. Another obvious issue is that learning a second language, having different structures, vocabularies, and grammar may negatively affect their first language. To put it simply, while they still would not be professional in their mother tongue's academic and formal aspects, facing new linguistic rules would be frustrating. Consequently, it could lead to a weak basis in their native language for the next grades.
In conclusion, I believe that the disadvantages of starting a foreign language learning program in primary school before secondary school far outweigh any of the benefits that could be resulting from it.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 220, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
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Line 7, column 89, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to program'
Suggestion: to program
...of starting a foreign language learning program in primary school before secondary scho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in many cases, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 8.3376753507 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1608.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48805460751 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82855067156 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.60409556314 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.5519072662 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.2 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5333333333 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.6666666667 7.06120827912 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less 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: 0.346272029366 0.244688304435 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112001110904 0.084324248473 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108595817664 0.0667982634062 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249014606528 0.151304729494 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0812020729703 0.056905535591 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => 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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