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?
Nowadays, learning a foreign language at an early age has become a controversial issue in society. Some experts think that it would be better to teach a foreign language to a child from age 5 instead of 11 years old. It seems to me that this trend brings more benefits than drawbacks.
It is true that the proponents of this view discuss that there are many reasons behind their claims. Firstly, approaching a new foreign language as early as the primary school could stimulate the cognitive development of children. To be more specific, being put under such circumstances will create an opportunity to practice the brain’s functions. For instance, a little girl-Annie can speak English fluently who is famous on a youtube channel as just 3 years old. Secondly, children are more likely to achieve fluency skills in picking up the pronunciation of the newest language. This is because young children will easily imitate in terms of phonetics and tone of native speaker much better compared to older people. Therefore, this is pros that help children listen, understand, and reflect proficiently in a second language.
On the other hand, some suggested that learning two languages at the same time will cause a language disorder. To explain, this could delay the development of a child's mother tongue if children have to absorb another new language. Besides, the supplement of a foreign language into the curriculum puts a heavy burden on the child's learning process. Meanwhile, other subjects are of fundamental importance at that age such as maths, the first language, science which need a host of time to deal with, learning a new language is confusing and wastes time. However, these obstacles will be addressed to maximize the benefits of learning a new language if we have appropriate access to education for the child. The school and family who play a pivotal role in boosting children’s schooling need to make a suitable schedule to strike balance between studying other subjects as well as follow them to check your child's progress to avoid being overwhelmed.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that primary schools are the best places to enhance our children's language ability for the above-mentioned reasons.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
...s a heavy burden on the childs learning process. Meanwhile, other subjects are of funda...
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Line 3, column 877, Rule ID: AS_FOLLOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'as follows'?
Suggestion: as follows
...between studying other subjects as well as follow them to check your childs progress to a...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 913, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (childs) must be used with a third-person verb: 'progresses'.
Suggestion: progresses
...ell as follow them to check your childs progress to avoid being overwhelmed. In conclus...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1862.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 367.0 315.596192385 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07356948229 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83420925388 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58038147139 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => 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: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9336820483 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.529411765 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5882352941 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.58823529412 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.306053741842 0.244688304435 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909803710361 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564202292707 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188042904435 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183782585609 0.056905535591 32% => 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: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
...s a heavy burden on the childs learning process. Meanwhile, other subjects are of funda...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 877, Rule ID: AS_FOLLOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'as follows'?
Suggestion: as follows
...between studying other subjects as well as follow them to check your childs progress to a...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 913, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (childs) must be used with a third-person verb: 'progresses'.
Suggestion: progresses
...ell as follow them to check your childs progress to avoid being overwhelmed. In conclus...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as well as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1862.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 367.0 315.596192385 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07356948229 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83420925388 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58038147139 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => 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: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.9336820483 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.529411765 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5882352941 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.58823529412 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.306053741842 0.244688304435 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909803710361 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564202292707 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188042904435 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183782585609 0.056905535591 32% => 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: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 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.