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?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from your own knowledge or experience.
Speaking another language has always been found effective. Many countries have incorporated it in their education system at elementary instead of secondary level which, in my opinion, brings more benefits.
Teaching a foreign language to elementary students might be challenging. Firstly, for children aging between 5 and 10, the task of learning two distinguishing languages at once might be too much of an ask. Typical behaviors of children this age are playfulness and impatience which can cause difficulties in following learning points and teachers' delivering lessons well. The pressure may also be acknowledged by schools and parents. Primary school teachers tend to teach multiple subjects in one class and administrators might be expected to hire people with additional language qualities. Besides, parents seem to find it hard to support the children's learning process if their native language is the only one they understand. Therefore, requiring students to study a different language from their mother’s earlier at school may take more time and effort from many parties.
Nevertheless, I agree that we need to support early second language training. Children might struggle at first but this can be prevented with a well-thought-out curriculum. Parents can always inform homeroom teachers and other school staff about the issues their children experience. Another measure is getting a private tutor to provide customized assistance. More importantly, the five-year extra will make a huge impact on one’s language proficiency. This means that the earlier pupils start learning the new language, the easier and faster for them to master it. Speaking a second language fluently possibly results in higher chances for job opportunities. Once a nation’s younger generations speak well-accepted languages such as English and Chinese, that nation’s workforce is likely to be considerably appreciated by the world. Through songs, movies, and games used in language teaching, young people could develop many positive traits such as cultural sensitivity, creativity, and tolerance. A society occupied with skilled and well-rounded members will thrive unarguably.
In conclusion, while the teaching and learning process might be trickier, I believe this approach's advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, well, while, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1977.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 344.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74709302326 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06542455088 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.639534883721 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.9979729174 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.85 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 7.06120827912 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22162356734 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0614395528691 0.084324248473 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392360779266 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127839567885 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0529863610251 0.056905535591 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.77 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 78.4519038076 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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