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?
In these days, the question of whether it is a better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school or not has been receiving a great deal of public attention. Although this idea is not without disadvantages, the upsides will be far more significant.
There are a number of drawbacks of the children’s early exposure to foreign languages at primary school ages. First, since a student at the age of from 6 to 10 is not proficient in their mother tongue, pursuing another language course at school is likely to lead to language confusion. In fact, each language has its own linguistic features related to pronunciation, grammars or vocabularies, which makes it hard for a kid to remember and distinguish between the second language and the mother one. Second, by forcing children to take extra foreign language lessons after school, parents inadvertently make their opportunities for free play become increasingly scared. This means that the children’s outdoor play time is curtailed to spend on language assignments or tests, which is detrimental to both physical and mental development.
Nevertheless, the adoption of a new language at primary school is much more conducive than at secondary one owning to a whole host of compelling reasons. First, if children are exposed to a foreign language at their young age, there is a good chance that they will absorb it more straightforwardly and naturally than their counterparts. It is an apparent fact that learning languages is largely shaped by imitation process rather than invention, not to mention that young children are always good at copying skills such as pronunciation or accents than adults, which implies that letting children immerse themselves in foreign languages should be encouraged. Moreover, acquiring the second language is beneficial to children’s cognitive development. A great deal of evidence suggests that bilingual’s brains often work more actively and they potentially perform better on tasks that require conflict management compared to monolinguals.
In conclusion, the benefits associated with learning foreign language obviously outweigh the drawbacks. By considering the pros and cons properly, parents can have the best language teaching strategy for their children.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 16, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
In these days, the question of whether it is a better for children to begin le...
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Line 3, column 596, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lts, which implies that letting children immerse themselves in foreign languages ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, in conclusion, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1965.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 358.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48882681564 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18301083941 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564245810056 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.5275617865 49.4020404114 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.357142857 106.682146367 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5714285714 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 7.06120827912 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.419235804318 0.244688304435 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150179876282 0.084324248473 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112835433375 0.0667982634062 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.275456192314 0.151304729494 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0860757894614 0.056905535591 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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.