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?
Learning a second language has become mainstream nowadays regardless of their first language. According to some expert, primary school is the best place to learn a foreign language rather than secondary school. Teaching young children a completely new language at an early stage has some benefits along with disadvantages.
The ability to memorize is higher at an early stage. Young children can acquire knowledge quicker than an adult. As we grow older, we tend to become good at understanding logic and losing the power of memorising which is essential for learning grammar. Moreover, every language learning process is consist of memorizing a large number of words which is easier for children.
Apart from that, learning a new language requires a great deal of time. Which every child can have while being in primary school. The volume of study in primary school is a lot less than secondary school so that, the teachers in school can have an adequate amount of time to teach the foreign language. Moreover, children can dedicate more time at home. Therefore, the entire process is much easier while studying at primary school.
On the flip side, intensive concentration is essential in order to learn a language which a young child struggles to deliver. Research shows that any child under eight years of age can only focus about fifteen minutes per hour which makes the teaching time much longer. Apart from that, learning another language may disrupt learning the native language. Children may confuse vocabularies between two languages and even develop a foreign accent. For instance, English medium students in Bangladesh, cannot talk properly in Bengali and they tend to talk Bengali with English accent.
To conclude, learning a foreign language at school may have some pitfalls but the benefits it brings with it is greater.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, while, apart from, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 24.0651302605 37% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20202020202 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46830513525 2.80592935109 88% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.4751151355 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.8333333333 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5 20.7667163134 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05555555556 7.06120827912 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380542675578 0.244688304435 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126667220354 0.084324248473 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113737356729 0.0667982634062 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242819509679 0.151304729494 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112481567392 0.056905535591 198% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.0946893788 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 78.4519038076 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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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.