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 outweigh the disadvantages?
Several experts claim that studying a new language apart from the mother tongue at elementary school instead of secondary school is more beneficial for students. This essay would agree that the benefits of the trend are more significant than the drawbacks.
One disadvantage of this trend is that primary school teachers might not have sufficient language ability to instruct the students. To be more specific, it requires fewer credentials and less academic knowledge for them to be qualified as an educator compared to teachers of higher levels, so they may not possess the necessary skills to deliver the assigned lessons properly. Another negative aspect is that young children could be at risk of not being capable of balancing the use of their first and second language. For example, some kids experience problems forming a complete sentence in either their mother tongue or the newly learned language as they face trouble mixing up the vocabulary. Hence, this could cause them confusion when communicating with those speaking one language only.
However, the drawbacks above pale in comparison with the advantages. Firstly, elementary students are more receptive to learning another language. To explain, taking up a linguistic skill at an early stage of life allows children to gain knowledge more effectively because they tend to reflex on a new language more instinctively and quickly than adults. Another positive aspect is that primary students have more time to learn and use a language than secondary students. Specifically, elementary students tend to endure a workload that is less heavy than their counterparts, which spares them time to study via entertainment channels, allowing them to absorb the language without the need to put in much effort. Thus, they would be of a better advantage when it comes to picking up a new language thanks to the extra time that they have.
In conclusion, the merits of this trend certainly surpass the demerits. By starting their linguistic learning sooner, not only can the students acquire knowledge more quickly, but they will also have more time to get familiar with the new language naturally.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, so, thus, apart from, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1817.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 346.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25144508671 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73153192631 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546242774566 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5702709518 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.133333333 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0666666667 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219538853404 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733260106588 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685344326025 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137119901712 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650781511761 0.056905535591 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, so, thus, apart from, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1817.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 346.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25144508671 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73153192631 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546242774566 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5702709518 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.133333333 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0666666667 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219538853404 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733260106588 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685344326025 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137119901712 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650781511761 0.056905535591 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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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.