Learning foreign languages in primary school in more effective for the students? Do you agree or disagree?
Over the past half-century, the question of whether children should learn foreign languages in primary schools
has generated a great deal of heated debate among linguists and parents. The popular belief seems to be that the
acquisition of foreign languages in middle childhood is more effective. I cannot but agree with this view for educational and psychological reasons and I will analyze that through this essay.
First and foremost, it is a well-established fact that primary school pupils are highly apt to be taught other languages. Simply put, inasmuch as their brain function is noticeably better than adults, they can assimilate
new language skills. In fact, rarely can we see primary school students who find learning a foreign language
problematic.
More significantly, not only young children are highly prone to acquire linguistic skills, but also the process of teaching is far easier than teaching to adults. Evidently, a primary school pupil's brain is like arable land in which
you can grow different crops. Thus, it only makes sense to consider middle childhood the most appropriate period
to learn new languages.
Another compelling argument in support of teaching foreign languages in primary schools could be the fact that
young children can broaden their horizon. Undoubtedly, the acquisition of new languages apart from their mother tongue can expand pupils' outlook in that they will be familiar with other cultures in the world.
Having considered all sides, I conclude that the acquisition of foreign languages in middle childhood is highly
beneficial due to reasons such as being apt to learn, teaching more effectively and broadening pupils' horizon.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 29, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
Over the past half-century, the question of whether children should learn foreign languages...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, so, thus, well, apart from, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.5418719212 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 6.10837438424 164% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 31.9359605911 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1434.0 1207.87684729 119% => OK
No of words: 264.0 242.827586207 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43181818182 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 3.92707691288 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80466782635 2.71678728327 103% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 139.433497537 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.57196969697 0.580463131201 99% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 379.143842365 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.898509455 50.4703680194 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.5 104.977214359 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.9669160288 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.25397266985 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 12.0 4.12807881773 291% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316823726042 0.242375264174 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113246825959 0.0925447433944 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0752554655377 0.071462118173 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119131651611 0.151781067708 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0881334408548 0.0609392437508 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 12.6369458128 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.1260098522 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 11.5310837438 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.32886699507 104% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 55.0591133005 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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