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?

Globalisation has led to introduction of foreign language in school cirricullum. Thus, in order to ensure that school children learn them easily, some experts are of opinion that they should be introduced early on in schools rather than at later grades. I believe that this will be beneficial to children.

Proponents of the argument that foreign language should be taught in secondary school opine that once children are older they are better able to grasp nuances of foreign language. It is also believed that, since these children are already learning their mother tongue in primary school, introducing another language can overburden them. Young school children may find it difficult to distinguish between language spoken at home and that taught in school. This may lead to confusion and the child may end up learning neither languages satisfactorily.

However, there are enough evidences that show that children learn certain skills better when they are taught early. For example, most young children are known to learn and grasp language from their diverse neighbours despite no formal training. Therefore, it is better to start teaching them foreign language at young age. Also, in primary schools the number of subjects covered in curicullum are fewer in comparison to secondary schools. Thus students may in fact learn the language in better way rather than just for increasing their grades. Finally, exposure to different language can help children to develop an interest in linguistic skills and serve as a future career opportunity.

To summarize, there are far more advantages of learning foreign language in lower grades in school and any concerns related to confusing them with other language are misplaced as children are known to be fast learners.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, for example, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => 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: 1494.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 281.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31672597865 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65575341052 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562277580071 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 506.74238477 89% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5693207921 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.714285714 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0714285714 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85714285714 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.480645866242 0.244688304435 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.165135030683 0.084324248473 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621896924231 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.305355533051 0.151304729494 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0700293265976 0.056905535591 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => 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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