In the circumstances of the present-day world, children should be given every encouragement to regard the learning of several languages as normal; to suggest the contrary seems both prejudiced and harmful.
In the era of globalisation, where the value of being multilingual has risen dramatically, many parents have encouraged their children to commence their learning of foreign languages at a young age. Some people call for normalisation of such behaviour, and consider the opposite school of thought "prejudiced" and "harmful." Personally, I highly support the trend of motivating young children to learn a foreign language; however, the aforementioned brandings for the opposite course of action can be too extreme. The following essay will outline the reasons for my opinion.
Firstly, by allowing children to learn foreign language as a young age, they will learn to build tolerance and intercultural understanding. A language is a vessel for a culture to express itself. Take the example of our own mother tongue, Vietnamese, where everything from idioms to slang words reflect the life of the creators' generation. By having a glimpse into the history and the thought process of an ethnicity, one can learn to sympathise with that group of people. This is especially true for children, whose young minds can quickly absorb the values presented to them, in a world where they are expected to be tolerant and accepting to people of different backgrounds.
Secondly, by studying of a foreign language at a young age, children can easily develop an intuition for the language. With enough exposure, they can easily learn what is "proper" usage and what is "improper." They can intuitively know which words go well together, and which words do not. One can certainly acquire this ability during adulthood, but more often than not, they are too bogged down by trying to find the reasoning behind everything to truly develop this "intuition." A recent survey among Spanish learners can demonstrate this, where over 80% of respondents who began learning the language during childhood claim to have this "intuition," yet less than 20% of adult learners can claim the same.
However, to call the opposite view prejudiced is too extreme. Discouraging the acquisition of foreign languages can be harmful, when its aim is to block the development of positive values within children. Yet, more often than not, the intent for such behaviour is less insidious: parents not wanting their children to mix language up, or children not expressing an affinity for foreign language acquisition. Moreover, a prejudiced behaviour can only cause widespread harm if it is done on a wide scale. A lawmaker drafting a law to ban all language learning of a generation with the agenda of discrimination is certainly harmful, but a concerned parent doing the same out of fear that their child may not be able to speak their mother tongue well may be not.
To conclude, children who are encouraged to learn foreign languages at a young age can develop two valuable skills for the modern world: a tolerance for others and an intuition for the language. Therefore, they should be encouraged to begin their language learning journey at a young age. However, before branding any one who discourages such learning "prejudiced," one should take into account the intent behind such a decision.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'creators'' or 'creator's'?
Suggestion: creators'; creator's
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to journey'
Suggestion: to journey
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Message: Did you mean 'anyone'?
Suggestion: anyone
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Suggestion: , &apos
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2723.0 1977.66487455 138% => OK
No of words: 515.0 407.700716846 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28737864078 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.37787403419 2.67179642975 126% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 212.727598566 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504854368932 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 841.5 618.680645161 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 93.5601780952 48.9658058833 191% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.315789474 100.406767564 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1052631579 20.6045352989 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52631578947 5.45110844103 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169006737228 0.236089414692 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680209868465 0.076458572812 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.04587659645 0.0737576698707 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11812109602 0.150856017488 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441863126889 0.0645574589148 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 11.7677419355 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 10.9000537634 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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