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?
One of the highly controversial issue today relates to whether to begin learning a foreign language at primary school or at secondary school. In this essay, I am going to examine this question from both point of views and then give my own perspective on the matter.
On one side of the argument there are people who argue that the benefits of practicing foreign language at primary school considerably outweigh its disadvantages. The main reason for believing this is that the children have the golden age period when they are at elementary school. It is also possible to say that there is a significant increase of not only motor ability but also verbal ability in the period. One good illustration of this is some developed countries have been implementing the bilingual language in the primary school's curriculum for decades, and most of children can speak the second language as well as their native language.
On the other hand, it is also possible to make the opposing case. It is often argued that in fact it is better to begin learning second language at secondary school. People often have this opinion because they think that the student at secondary school more prepared than at primary school for acquiring new skills. A particularly good example here is from recent studies, which show that teens can focus on their adaptation skill in culture and social life.
In my opinion, both arguments have their merits. On balance, however, I tend to believe that learning second language in earlier age period will have more positive impact. And then, pupils at secondary school can expand wider horizon about the second language and its culture.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 531, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...g the bilingual language in the primary schools curriculum for decades, and most of chi...
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Line 3, column 567, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the children') or simply say ''most children''.
Suggestion: most of the children; most children
...ary schools curriculum for decades, and most of children can speak the second language as well a...
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Line 5, column 130, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to second'
Suggestion: to second
... in fact it is better to begin learning second language at secondary school. People of...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, then, well, in fact, as well as, in my opinion, 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 : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => 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: 1383.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 278.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97482014388 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56967752564 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546762589928 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 506.74238477 87% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.1132217296 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.384615385 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3846153846 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76923076923 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => 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: 0.432263614338 0.244688304435 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150604304438 0.084324248473 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131201637999 0.0667982634062 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.265332045233 0.151304729494 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670442348593 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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.