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?
Many educators claim that children will benefit if they start studying a second language earlier than high school. I entirely agree with this view, although certain professionals voice worries that a foreign language could harm children’s mother tongue.
Those who oppose introducing foreign languages into primary school curriculum support their view with several arguments. First, certain paediatricians contend that early exposure to a foreign language can damage pronunciation features in the native tongue. Second, some parents worry that their offspring may get confused, not being able to differentiate between several language systems. Third, some teachers assert that schoolchildren need to master other, more important subjects, such as mathematics or writing, which means that children will merely not have enough time to study a foreign language.
Despite those concerns, numerous scientific studies provide ample evidence that the earlier children get exposed to a foreign language, the better they develop intellectually. Not only do they master other tongues more easily than teenagers due to flexible myelin structure in their brain, they also consistently display improved cognitive skills, better memory and higher test results for other subjects compared to schoolchildren who never learned a foreign language. In addition, reliable scientific experiments disprove the myth that languages can mix and show that even infants acquire new languages as separate systems. For those reasons, I would argue that children do need to absorb several languages as early as possible, while their brains are still flexible, in order to boost their academic performance.
In conclusion, the benefits of foreign language studies at primary school have been supported by scientific research and far outweigh possible drawbacks.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, second, so, still, third, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 13.1623246493 23% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 41.998997996 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1576.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 269.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.85873605948 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82231305893 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.657992565056 0.561755894193 117% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4207772414 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.272727273 106.682146367 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4545454545 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.18181818182 7.06120827912 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => 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: 0.2786003675 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102499455526 0.084324248473 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490372694115 0.0667982634062 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177653482569 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024016692835 0.056905535591 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 13.0946893788 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.0 12.4159519038 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.