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 the contemporary world, it is generally true that studying a second language from an early age plays an important role in children’s intellectual development. While allowing juveniles to start learning a foreign language at primary school instead of secondary school possesses some drawbacks, my view is that it is more likely to agree with the former ones due to some beneficial factors.
There are some disadvantages of learning bilingual in primary schools due to the playing tendency of children’s characteristics and the teaching levels of teachers. It is undeniable that pupils at the first level of education prone to have more curiosity about surroundings and less concentration on studying. As a result, there may have less their self-consciousness on accessing a new language and they may be under parent’s supervision to improve these state. Moreover, along with their parents are their teachers, which usually have more general knowledge without specialized approaching to pupils than those who in the secondary schools. Consequently, teaching methods may need to be taken into consideration strategically without losing studying spirit of students, inviting language specialists for these lessons as a good illustration.
Notwithstanding, I would argue that the merits of starting a new language in primary schools are liable to overshadow the foregoing setbacks. First and foremost, children may have more ability to acquire knowledge and new language than teenagers thanks to their functional brains at these stages. They are far more natural and express themselves confidently without hindrance about their appearance, clothing or also the thinking of others. Furthermore, the timetable of pupils has more flexible and shorter sessions, together with a play-centered approach, thus maintaining their enthusiasm and motivation to absorb new features. For example, there have not existed some subjects such as physics or chemicals in the primary syllabus, which alleviates studying burdens on the pupil’s shoulder. Their command about language in the later stage of life may stem from this early exposure, hence learning a new tongue subsequently is much easier for them.
In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that starting a new language in the earlier stage of school life, albeit its inevitable disadvantages to individuals, has gained more benefits. In general, parents should take it into account to make decisions for allowing their children to have access to the second language in the most suitable period of time, which helps them develop sufficiently and optimally.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 339, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...he second language in the most suitable period of time, which helps them develop sufficiently ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, if, may, moreover, second, so, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, in general, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2230.0 1615.20841683 138% => OK
No of words: 398.0 315.596192385 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.60301507538 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1992729787 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552763819095 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 685.8 506.74238477 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 26.2715731458 49.4020404114 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 148.666666667 106.682146367 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5333333333 20.7667163134 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0666666667 7.06120827912 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => 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: 0.240594885616 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0850345547811 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0772873532179 0.0667982634062 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164005309433 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0482345142123 0.056905535591 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 13.0946893788 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 50.2224549098 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.5 12.4159519038 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.69 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 78.4519038076 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => 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.