Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language in primary schools rather than in secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Nowadays, many people, especially parents, are concerned about when they should allow their children learn a new language beside their mother one. While it is argued that youngsters will gain more benefits if they start learning another language in primary schools rather than in secondary schools, I totally believe that these merits can exceed these drawbacks.
There is no denying about many advantages of learning a foreign language in primary schools, one of which is to help children become more confident in using a new language. Through seminars and curriculum from the young ages in primary schools, pupils tend to be more familiar with different languages. Thus, they will be more confident to contact and communicate with other people by foreign languages which they are taught in schools, compared with those in secondary schools.
Another benefit associated with learning another language in primary schools is to build up a more united community, particularly in multi-languages places or countries. For example, children, because of different mother languages such as Chinese and Malaysian, are forced to learn English from primary school in Singapore. This aims to create new generations who are able to speak a specific but unpopular language to have more opportunities in the international environment. They are less likely to feel separated in their nation where they interact with each other by another language.
However, this tendency also contains some negative effects, one of which is an increase in losing uncommon languages, particularly minority languages. When young students do not understand their mother language enough but have to learn a foreign one to meet demands in schools, which can result in forgetting their own language. Obviously, many experts argue that losing a language can lead to a disappearing custom and traditional values, which is a consequence that no one wants.
In conclusion, although learning a foreign language from primary schools is responsible for the likelihood of losing minority languages and its traditional values, I still believe that these benefits including in building confidence and a united society further outweigh another side.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, still, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => 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: 1867.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47507331378 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84818527104 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530791788856 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 583.2 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => 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: 41.2561632477 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.615384615 106.682146367 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2307692308 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => 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: 0.30277561149 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108419889241 0.084324248473 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0772325916522 0.0667982634062 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174127956068 0.151304729494 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0508404999982 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 50.2224549098 73% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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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.