‘All children should learn to speak a foreign language as soon as they start school.’ How far do you agree with this proposal? How important is it for a child to learn a foreign language?
Learning a foreign language at an early age is still widely debated. However, to say that children should learn a foreign language as soon as they start school is not always good for them, as we will discuss now.
Perhaps, one major reason for this is children who learn a second language at a younger age become more fluent than those who start later. The simple fact of speaking two languages also means children are raised with a stronger sensitivity to language, making it easier for them to pick up additional languages later in life. This sensitivity to language is also apparent in your child’s reading and writing skills, which will be superior. Other advantages can include stronger motor regions, as well as the ability to pay better attention. Speaking two languages, and knowing when to speak one over the other, means the child has to focus more carefully. Furthermore, having the capacity to switch between two languages is a skill that goes beyond simple linguistics and can improve a child’s multitasking abilities. For young children, growing up learning multiple languages will come as naturally as just learning one — learning languages from birth is the easiest time compared to any other time in life.
I do appreciate the opposing view, which is that children who learn a foreign language may get confused and thus will be slower in their development. However, I believe that such drawbacks would be overcome through a well-scheduled learning schedule to keep their mind focused.
In summary, it seems to me that learning a foreign language at an early age is worth implementing because of the positive impacts that children may gain. This ranges from stronger fluency and multitasking abilities.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, still, thus, well, as to, in summary, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1449.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 285.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08421052632 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75735899444 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571929824561 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 38.4956771568 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.461538462 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9230769231 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46153846154 7.06120827912 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.393890319867 0.244688304435 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134674385862 0.084324248473 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0833164352056 0.0667982634062 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.233614943595 0.151304729494 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0884893874596 0.056905535591 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 78.4519038076 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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