With the development of society and the enhancement of globalization, more and more parents have realized that learning a foreign language can enhance the competitive power of their children. So they have sent their children to foreign-language-learning courses to strengthen their abilities in foreign languages. So, what is the best time for children to start learning a foreign language? Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning at primary school rather than secondary school. In my opinion, I support the language learning at a young age. Definitely, there are both some advantages and disadvantages of adding a foreign-language-learning task in pupils' study. However, the advantages must outweigh the disadvantages.
One of the most referred disadvantage is the stress which would be put on children if they begin to study a foreign language at a young age. However, I think any subjects such as math, science, and history could bring about pressure on children. And learning a language, which has not many things to do with IQ could only bring less pressure than other subjects. Also, there are many advantages in learning a foreign at a young age. Firstly, the younger children have much better memories, which is very important in language learning. Secondly, with the capability of speaking a foreign language, children would become more self-confident and outgoing. They could be more willing to communicate with other people including foreign people. Thirdly, with growing of children, they will face to harder and harder courses of other subjects. Learning a foreign language earlier could relief the stress of language learning in their secondary school.
To sum up, I believe it is better to start learning a foreign language at primary school, or even at kindergarten. The younger the better!
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, i think, such as, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1551.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 292.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31164383562 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26532610459 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 176.041082164 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.493150684932 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 468.9 506.74238477 93% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6564973388 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.1666666667 106.682146367 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2222222222 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72222222222 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.38176352705 68% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.483921598649 0.244688304435 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1639995607 0.084324248473 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.158886034425 0.0667982634062 238% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.367646156411 0.151304729494 243% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105969656489 0.056905535591 186% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.58950901804 89% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 78.4519038076 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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