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?
There is no doubt that acquiring knowledge of other nation’s language helps in overall development of children. While few people think that primary school is good time and age to learn, others argue that foreign languages can also be studied in secondary school. I do not completely agree with these views and will support my explanation with relevant examples.
On the one hand, learning a foreign language at a later stage of life takes a lot more time and effort to succeed. The reason is that, these teenagers are already mentally matured and burdened with competitive regular courses, which spares them no time to concentrate enthusiastically on secondary languages. For example, according to a report published in the UK newspaper in 2011, it highlighted a mediocre performance in foreign language exams by adolescent learners. However, young scholars should be motivated to learn other languages. As a result, they become more confident with clear carrier goals.
On the other hand, there are plenty of benefits in acquiring these skills at a tender age. This is because, the brain of young school pupils is proactive, which help them to grasp the knowledge and retain it for lifetime. For instance, in my own experience, I learnt Spanish as a regular subject in school. As a result, it helped me intellectually as well as professionally to obtain a desired job in Spain. In contrast, an excess burden on young minds is observed. As a consequence, they tend to avoid this learning process due to monotony and boredom. Therefore, I believe that learning language at any level depends upon the motivation and neuro-cognitive development of a child.
In conclusion, while the advantages of learning other countries’ language at young age are more, we should also consider its drawbacks in the learning process.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, no doubt, as a result, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1533.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16161616162 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04876902609 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585858585859 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9257086288 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.8125 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5625 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06120827912 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264546978138 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738916768332 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0635541687502 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157223097776 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039101479458 0.056905535591 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.