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?
People, who have specialized in foreign language studies opine that, children ought to start learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. This essay argues, how learning a foreign at a primary school is more beneficial to the students, than learning the same language at secondary school.
Firstly, the child in his early life does not judge a language whilst learning it. Children at a tender age are like water, they can be molded in any form or shape and hence, when taught at this age, they ought to grasp the language rapidly. However, once they are grown children, they like to rationalize and to compare the foreign language to their mother tongue, which consequently results as a hinderance in learning that language. To illustrate, according to a recent survey, children in primary schools learnt and spoke a foreign language more fluently, than the students who were taught the same language in secondary school. Hence, children should commence learning a foreign language at an early age.
In addition, age plays an important role in absorbing new languages. It is often seen that, earlier the child learns a language, better is the grasping capacity of the child to learn that language, as at an early age, the child is neither under pressure of performance in school nor does the student have any added responsibilities. For instance, once the child is studying in secondary school, one has to cope up with numerous subjects, and hence this leaves very little time for a foreign language to be learnt. Also, being a part of a competition and performing better than other students in the higher grades, is of utmost importance for a child for one’s better future. Therefore, a child is burdened with many responsibilities in secondary school and finds it very difficult to bring everything under one roof and hence, the interest in learning the language in higher grades is lost.
In conclusion, the above illustrations clearly indicate that, the benefits of leaning a foreign language in a primary school certainly outweighs the drawbacks of learning the same in a secondary school, as at an early age there are no responsibilities and there is no comparison between the languages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, so, therefore, as to, for instance, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 369.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05420054201 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84155613818 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471544715447 0.561755894193 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 580.5 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.0390775474 49.4020404114 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.461538462 106.682146367 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3846153846 20.7667163134 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.69230769231 7.06120827912 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.443660652245 0.244688304435 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.182651781258 0.084324248473 217% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123649545244 0.0667982634062 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.313278237958 0.151304729494 207% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11147865209 0.056905535591 196% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.0946893788 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 50.2224549098 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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