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?

As we are entering a new era, the one of globalisation, being bilingual or even polylingual is critically beneficial and can be the cutting edge for your child to success. Many pieces of research yielded the same conclusions, which best way to learn a second language is to do it when we are young. In fact, the benefits come from the learning a foreign language between the age of 6 to 9 is far superior to the ones that gained by adults.
 
It is a well-known fact that children under the age of 6 to 9 have better memory, better ability to adapt and in general, is a better student than adults. Many cases, in which kids who were still in primary school can use fluently more than one language, were recorded, primarily due to their early exposure to such languages. Besides the relevance of the age, children in primary school do not have to learn as many subjects as when in secondary school, thus they can better prioritise their study of the new language
 
Being fluently in a second language due to early exposure can save a child much time to learn other subject and even learn other issues in that second language. For instance, in Vietnam, it is significantly beneficial for students, especially form secondary school, to be able to use a secondary language fluently, since they can take advantage form the various source of references and information of other countries.

Nevertheless, there have been some controversies on this matter, and some people believe that learning a new language before secondary school is too early and it leads to the disorganisation and confusion in using both languages. However, this problem usually only appears if the child does not have the formal and well-thought education system. The chaos of using two languages in children emerges from learning them in a casual, unorganised manner. 

In conclusion, the importance of having a second language is undeniable. However, it is essential to we when is the right time and how is the right way for our children to start learning it.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in general

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1695.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 351.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82905982906 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81260221931 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498575498575 0.561755894193 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 534.6 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 31.0 20.2975951904 153% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.2584094008 49.4020404114 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.090909091 106.682146367 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.9090909091 20.7667163134 154% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4545454545 7.06120827912 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => 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: 0.327086263078 0.244688304435 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113488265441 0.084324248473 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662409604352 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166508672239 0.151304729494 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0648414872157 0.056905535591 114% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 13.0946893788 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 50.2224549098 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.33 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.1190380762 142% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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