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?
Traditionally, children have begun studying foreign languages at secondary school
but introducing them earlier is recommended by some educationalists. This policy
has been adopted by some educational authorities or individual schools, with both
positive and negative outcomes.
The obvious argument in its favour is that young children pick up languages much
more easily than teenagers. Their brains are still programmed to acquire their
mother tongue, which facilitates learning another language and unlike adolescents,
they are not inhibited by self-consciousness.
The greater flexibility of the primary timetable allows for more frequent, shorter
sessions and for a play-centered approach, thus maintaining learners' enthusiasm
and progress. Their command of the language in later life will benefit from this early
exposure while learning other languages subsequently will be easier for them.
They may also gain a better understanding of other cultures
There are, however, some disadvantages. Primary school teachers are generalists,
and may not have the necessary language skills themselves Ilf specialists have
to be brought in to deliver these sessions, the flexibility referred to above is
diminished. If primary language teaching is not standardised, secondary schools
could be faced with a great variety of levels in different languages within their
intake, resulting in a classroom experience which undoes the earlier gains. There
is no advantage if enthusiastic primary pupils become demotivated as soon as they
change schools. However, these issues can be addressed strategically within the
policy adopted.
Anything which encourages language learning benefits society culturally and
economically, and early exposure to language learning contributes to this. Young
children's innate abilities should be harnessed to make these benefits more
achievable.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, so, still, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => 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: 1654.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 267.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.19475655431 5.12529762239 121% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19043531931 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.647940074906 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 504.0 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7187132374 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.230769231 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5384615385 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 24.0 4.38176352705 548% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => 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: 0.289553886214 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907568943083 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626214572525 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0713372262086 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0748641729407 0.056905535591 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 13.0946893788 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 25.8 50.2224549098 51% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 18.62 12.4159519038 150% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.25 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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