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?
In recent decades, owing to cut throat competition, being multilingual has become the need of today’s global world. Nowadays, children are forced to learn a foreign language at younger ages. Meanwhile, it is advocated that learning a second language at primary school brings more benefits than at secondary school, which has become a hot topic among parents. This essay will elaborate on both advantages and disadvantages before reaching to empirical conclusion.
On one hand, learning a foreign language at primary school provides numerous benefits to children. First of all, ease of learning a second language in earlier years. To enumerate, at the primary school, pupils are not stressed with voluminous curriculum and can spare time for language learning, which boosts their efficiency of grasping a foreign language, while at secondary school, students are burdened with numerous disciplines, such as physics and biology, so they tend to distract their attentions form language study. Secondly, new language becomes a common language. To explain, children at primary school are not deeply affected by their mother language and culture, since with little knowledge of this world and surroundings they easily inculcate new language. In addition, children are known for better grasping power at this stage in their lives. Thus, it is the best time to shape outlooks and develop language ability.
On the paradoxical side, it is believed that language learning at an early age has some drawbacks. One of them which cannot be given ‘Nelson’s eye’ is confusion faced while learning both native language and foreign language simultaneously. In other words, children struggle in proper usage of words in native language and second language and they probably mix both two languages in their formal speaking and writing, resulting in criticism from other people. Consequently, they fail to learn both languages well. Furthermore, learning a foreign language at such a small age diminishes the cultural identity which is related to language study.
In the light of these facts on can conclude that the advantages of learning a second language at primary school outweigh its negative sides. Children are gifted with outstanding language ability in their early years, so they should make optimal use of their talents at the primary schools. Although, sometimes they may be confronted with confusions or difficulties in the process of learning, but it can be avoided by good guidance from teachers and parents.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, thus, well, while, in addition, such as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => 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: 2140.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 393.0 315.596192385 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44529262087 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86464953161 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531806615776 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 655.2 506.74238477 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.0532163719 49.4020404114 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.631578947 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6842105263 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63157894737 7.06120827912 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.40531072861 0.244688304435 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13659395233 0.084324248473 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0920087856613 0.0667982634062 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254805573115 0.151304729494 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0704430913578 0.056905535591 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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