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?
Studying a foreign language is an imperative trend since the demand for bilingual workers has significantly increased recently. Therefore, some people contend that children should learn a foreign language when they are in primary school instead of secondary. However, I do think that the disadvantageous aspects of the trend take over its advantages because of several reasons.
On the one hand, allowing children to study a foreign language in primary schools is beneficial to their language acquisition. In fact, the sooner children study a language, the better they will perform. As they are young, they are able to pronounce the words correctly as they hear from teachers or audios. Moreover, they will remember more vocabulary and speak more naturally than those who start to learn at secondary school. Additionally, their enthusiasm in studying a foreign language also be boosted significantly since they are taught with numerous active methods like games, pictures, songs and outdoor activities as well; therefore, they are fond of learning their new language and using it both at school and at home.
On the other hand, due to the fact that children have to attain a great amount of knowledge in early ages; their daily lives will be tremendously affected. In terms of their mental health, they are likely to be prone to some mental diseases like headaches or stress. In fact, they have to study two languages which are their mother tongue and the foreign one, their free time will be particularly limited. Consequently, stress and boredom are things that children may suffer from. Another significant consequence is that kids are confused when using languages. At early ages, they cannot distinguish the differences between their mother and foreign language; therefore, they tend to misuse them, which afflicts their communicative skills and also daily communication.
From all the above-given, studying a foreign language is imperative; however, children can start to study at their secondary schools instead of primary education since they are prone to numerous problems. Parents and teachers should create a relaxing environment for children to choose what they want to study in order to gain the best results.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, well, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1881.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 353.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32861189802 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79240517536 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532577903683 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 575.1 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7186010234 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.5625 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0625 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8125 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.252269476621 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934906370499 0.084324248473 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819031379047 0.0667982634062 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182237199788 0.151304729494 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0789409728722 0.056905535591 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 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.