Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language in primary school rather than secondary school.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
These days, several professionals assume that children should start learning a foreign language in primary school. While there are some advantages of this trend, I would argue that the disadvantages are more significant.
On the one hand, children who begin learning a foreign language in primary school will get several benefits. Firstly, since children with little age are not shy, they will actively practice their language skills more frequently. As a result, their studying ability in a foreign language is better than teenagers. Secondly, because primary school timetable is not fixed as in secondary school, children can learn at any time they want. If they start learning a foreign language in secondary school, the fixed timetable only allows them to learn the language at predefined time per week.
However, learning a foreign language in primary school definitely brings several obvious disadvantages. First and foremost, a foreign language is not a great concern of educational training for primary teachers. This might negatively affect children in learning language. For instance, as primary teachers were not fully trained in the foreign language, they could make mistakes in spelling and pronunciation and allow children to follow. In addition, because other subjects are more important in that age such as math and mother language than a foreign language, spending a great amount of time in learning it could reduce necessary time for those subjects.
In summary, I believe that the disadvantages of learning a foreign language in primary school outweigh its advantages, and this is a negative trend.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, in addition, in summary, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 41.998997996 60% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1374.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 253.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43083003953 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80302650992 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 176.041082164 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525691699605 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 425.7 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less 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% => 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: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6506121877 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.692307692 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4615384615 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.505823925096 0.244688304435 207% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.195545529166 0.084324248473 232% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088217187367 0.0667982634062 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.337432115061 0.151304729494 223% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445364119673 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 78.4519038076 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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