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?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from your own knowledge or experience.
Some educationalists have suggested that a foreign language should be taught to students when they start their primary school education rather than at secondary education level. In my opinion, however, while starting to learn a foreign language at an early age may cause some undesirable effects on the learners, its significant benefits are undeniably huge.
On the one hand, I believe that teaching foreign language to primary school students may lead to unpleasant consequences. It is because many children in Vietnam have been assigned to learn and achieved high scores in multiple subjects, which they may have no capacity to tackle effectively in the same period of primary schools. Consequently, they might fail some courses which can destroy their confidence in studying. Even worse, they may lose their interest in learning at school. These outcomes are undesirable for not only the children themselves but also for their family and society as a whole.
On the other hand, I can safely say that that picking up some knowledge of a foreign language at such a young age can bring about obvious benefits. Take English language learning in my country for example, those students who have studied English since their primary school age do much better on English as part of the entrance exam to college or university than those who started to learn the language later. In other English language tests like IELTS or TOEFL, there are also huge differences in scores between the two groups of students. Therefore, if parents are concerned about their children’s language learning, they can let them study a foreign language at the beginning of primary education. In this way, young children can enjoy great benefits, helping them succeed more later in both their academic life as well as their career path than their peers.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that even though young children may find it difficult to deal with many subjects at primary schools including foreign language learning in their curriculum, the benefits leading to their future successes outweigh the challenges.
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- 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 outweight the disadvantages? 73
- 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?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from 73
- 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?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from 78
- 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 outweight the disadvantages? 73
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, as well as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 340.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19117647059 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6851169325 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561764705882 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.9599672562 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.769230769 106.682146367 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1538461538 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6153846154 7.06120827912 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293819492037 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110055618237 0.084324248473 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590178687823 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19082907071 0.151304729494 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0101173278348 0.056905535591 18% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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