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?
Some experts hold a view that children in primary school are more suitable to start to learn a new language than those in secondary school. From my perspective, I agree with this viewpoint, for it will bring substantial benefits for children because of their age and their brain.
First of all, children from six to ten years old do not feel difficult to absorb the new language since this is an ideal period for them. To clarify, students in primary school just learn basic skills such as drawing, counting and writing, whereas those in secondary school have to deal with a myriad of compulsory subjects that put more stress on them like math, chemistry and physics. Therefore, beginning to learn new languages is favourable for primary students owing to their free mind. While secondary ones have to store much information about their subjects at school and their lessons at extra classes, pupils in the primary level tend to be carefree about their life, leading to effortlessly acquire the language.
Besides their age, the brain of children in primary school facilitates the language learning process. Research shows that theirs works more effectively to store information than that of adults. For example, a nine-year-old student can remember a long list of new words in just one hour. Moreover, during this time, the brain could be stimulated to learn languages quicker through imitating and engaging in recreational activities. According to a survey, 70% of children can learn another language by watching movies or listening to music.
To sum up, age and brain are the two key factors helping students in primary school have greater advantages to efficiently begin learning a foreign language than those in secondary school. Therefore, parents should let children study new languages at an early age so that they can develop their language skills in an effective way.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 94, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
...chool facilitates the language learning process. Research shows that theirs works more ...
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Line 7, column 312, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an effective way" with adverb for "effective"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... they can develop their language skills in an effective way.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, such as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => 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: 1580.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12987012987 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63825822782 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568181818182 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4955924307 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.538461538 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6923076923 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.76923076923 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.393280843588 0.244688304435 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148829699791 0.084324248473 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104838491688 0.0667982634062 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269373144646 0.151304729494 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0507316748137 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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.