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?
People have different views about the best age to start acquiring a completely new foreign language. In my opinion, it is more advantageous for young pupils to take up a second language at primary school, compared to any disadvantages this trend may bring.
Admittedly, taking part in language courses at primary levels brings some negative impacts on young children. Firstly, children at elementary levels are required to master other subjects such as maths, mother tongue and science for their regular examinations which determine their academic performance. As a result, they are obligated to spend a great deal of time to enhance their native tongue to comprehend the knowledge of these academic subjects, thus limit the amount of time spent on other voluntary language lessons. Secondly, learning a new language at this stage can delay the development of children’s first language. In other words, they can be confused between two languages and misuse them regularly, which can be time-consuming for them to distinguish differences and improve their language proficiency.
Despite the potential problems mentions above, I believe being bilingual at an early age is significantly more beneficial for children due to several reasons. First of all, young children are less self-conscious or intimidated, so they are not afraid of making mistakes or feeling ashamed of their pronunciation inaccuracy. Moreover, they are eager to imitate teachers’ intonation and enjoy communicative activities that are organized in classrooms. As a consequence, they pick up the pronunciation rapidly and progress at a more tremendous speed. In particular, many findings have revealed that children are similar to a sea sponge and able to master a language skill twice as fast as adults or teenagers, which suggests children immersing themselves in a new language as soon as possible.
In conclusion, while some people are opposed to the idea of training children to be bilingual at a young age, I strongly believe that the benefits of acquiring a new language at this age are more significant.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, in conclusion, in particular, such as, as a result, first of all, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 328.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4237804878 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14368743233 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576219512195 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 566.1 506.74238477 112% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.7639167021 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.846153846 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2307692308 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.6923076923 7.06120827912 180% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.25128182387 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885491395388 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725044663346 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160549014207 0.151304729494 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390791590286 0.056905535591 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => 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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