• 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?
Possessing curiosity and seeking novelty eternally, primary school students are supposed to have a higher competence in learning a foreign language than children at secondary school. In my opinion, educational authorities should be more supportive of this view. However, we also have to consider a few minor disadvantages.
On the one hand, younger children can understand a language twice as fast as elders do, meaning that younger age owns learning speed faster. According to language experts: ‘The brain of a 3-year-old child works twice as fast as an adult brain.’ It is indisputable that children at primary age are uncomplicated. They do everything which they want to do and study by emotion and all sense. In addition, the development process of primary students is try-wrong-try, they aren’t afraid to be wrong. They keep their passion with novel and attractive things. Furthermore, 7-11-year-old students or smaller are more likely to absorb the melody, diapason, harmony of songs with their flexible ears quickly. They imitate the pronunciation of pleasant new words in songs so that they hone their listening and speaking skills.
On the other hand, grammatically correct use of a second language is slightly difficult for children at primary school. One of the reasons, children’s hyperactivity causes poor concentration that decreasing the theoretical capability. Meanwhile, secondary school students must learn more grammar knowledge. Nevertheless, the enormous amount of knowledge from many subjects that made them under pressure cause decreasing interested in studying new languages. By contrast, younger children merely concentrate on mathematical skills along with literacy of mother tongue language. Even so, it is a bit overwhelming for them to have to learn two languages at the same time.
On the basis of the foregoing, I punctuate that primary school focus on encouraging foreign language exposure possible by creating an entertaining environment for them, a method which, in my point of view, should reduce pressure on primary school students.
- 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 89
- 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 61
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, while, even so, in addition, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1764.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 318.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54716981132 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10474677765 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.61320754717 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6197304211 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.764705882 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7058823529 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => 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 : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.300963947819 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0864147383222 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0992342368571 0.0667982634062 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193410623224 0.151304729494 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610432677359 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.91 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.