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?

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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?

SIt is true that learning a foreign language can benefit individuals in various ways since world turns into a small village that communications and mutual languages can be useful in different occupations. While a group of people argue that secondary school is the best age for learning a foreign language for pupils, I believe that there are more advantages for learning a language at early age.

There are some reasons why I would argue that learning a foreign language at secondary school would be futile. Firstly, the secondary schools' curriculum is already full with academic subjects that are difficult and overwhelming for students, so by transmitting the language lessons to the primary school we can enhance the time managing at high schools and it will lead to some improvements in other lessons. Secondly, if the elementary school pupils can learn a foreign language at early age, they can access the world class libraries and sources as they get older. A salient example of this is Germany, that provide English as a compulsory lesson for elementary students and as a result the pupils could be more successful at higher education levels.

On the other hand there are some persuasive arguments in favor of the advantages of learning a language at primary school. Children have the innate talent and instinct to pick up a language easily at early ages as well as their mother tongue, consequently it would be much easier for them to learn the new vocabulary and grammar by heart. To prove my claim, I can refer to an article having been published by Times magazine, indicates that more than 70% of primary students show interest in learning a new language at school and they could pass the exams with great scores. Furthermore, a majority of language learners who learned a foreign language at early age were more confident in communicating with others who spoke the language.

In conclusion, although the secondary school students are more mature, it would be easier for elementary students to learn a foreign language. The government authorities should investigate the schools' time table and make the necessary changes in it.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 135, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...would be futile. Firstly, the secondary schools curriculum is already full with academi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, it is true, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1796.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 355.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05915492958 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76748198842 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50985915493 0.561755894193 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 568.8 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.6119674658 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.666666667 106.682146367 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5833333333 20.7667163134 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5833333333 7.06120827912 178% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.381965003092 0.244688304435 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.164051323057 0.084324248473 195% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0812621881889 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253907274189 0.151304729494 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0474639494014 0.056905535591 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 50.2224549098 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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