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.
As one of the obvious implications of globalization, children have been encouraged to learn new languages besides their mother tongue at very young ages. Therefore, many people claim that the best period for pupils is at primary level, while the opposite side chooses the secondary level instead. From my perspective, both views, with their pros and cons, will be discussed below.
To begin with, many studies on children's language competence have shown that their ability to learn languages will gradually decline over time. Hence, it is a common belief that the most ideal age is from 4 to 9, as children at this period are highly sensitive to different sounds and words. In fact, they are totally able to handle more than one language without being properly aware of it. However, it would be slightly troublesome if parents wanted to boost their children's competence, for the amount of knowledge would be under control and ineffectively acquired. Although primary students can excel in language skills, if their parents were to be too demanding of them, it would almost certainly result in unexpected counter-interaction.
On the other hand, secondary students seem to be more mature than they were a few years ago. In comparison, teenage pupils are more conscious of languages' importance than the younger ones. Therefore, at this age, they are able to understand a variety of aspects of languages at a more sophisticated level, as their competence limit is much expanded. Yet one of the drawbacks is that they will find learning new languages unbearable since there are numerous subjects at school that they need to cope with. It can lead to unnecessary stress and depression for teenage children if learning schemes are not logically planned.
In summary, I firmly believe that children should learn new languages at very young ages since it can be a time-saving plan for the future. Actually, the plan to learn them should be moderately approved by caring parents so that their children can perform as much as possible.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, hence, however, if, second, so, therefore, while, in fact, in summary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1697.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 334.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08083832335 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83460208569 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559880239521 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3481398043 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.214285714 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8571428571 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.71428571429 7.06120827912 123% => 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: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215591117103 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0795593148686 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0332025681219 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138896854887 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.016127826023 0.056905535591 28% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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