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 this world of globalization, a second language is learned by many to be able to thrive in the world. Some would argue that it is better for the younger generation to learn a new language other than mother tongue from primary school rather than secondary school. I believe this would have more pros than cons.
To begin, kids from 6 – 12 has the most room for development and growth which many countries have acknowledged. They are like a piece of white paper waiting for the teacher in class to fill them up with a new skill, knowledge and language. For example, kids in Malaysia are compulsory to learn at least two languages in primary and secondary school. Learning a foreign language can be incorporated in the classroom as kids would absorb everything the teachers have taught as compared to starting from teenagers.
Secondly, learning a langue from young will allow one to have time to master a language. By the time the children grow up and step into the workforce, a foreign language is no longer foreign to them. This will help them to use the language in full capacity as they have many years of learning and practising the language skills since young. Some say it would not be too late to learn from secondary school, but as far as I know, the secondary school has many more new subjects/skills to start with. It is not ideal for the development of a foreign language as compared to starting it in early age.
To conclude, learning a foreign language has more advantages starting from primary school because children learn best at a young age and it gives time for children to own it like a mother tongue over time.
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- 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? 56
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, second, secondly, so, at least, for example, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1353.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 291.0 315.596192385 92% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64948453608 5.12529762239 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60039611718 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 176.041082164 81% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491408934708 0.561755894193 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.9 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8459253611 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.076923077 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3846153846 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84615384615 7.06120827912 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409194533186 0.244688304435 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149802893677 0.084324248473 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111063886429 0.0667982634062 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275838411742 0.151304729494 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688893123046 0.056905535591 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 50.2224549098 132% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 12.4159519038 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.57 8.58950901804 76% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 78.4519038076 43% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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