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.
Though learning a foreign language is common in almost every country, experts do not have consensus on the time children should start being taught a second language. Some educators believe that children can obtain more benefits from learning a new language if they start learning at primary school instead of secondary school. This essay is aimed to answer whether the advantages of early education of foreign languages surpass the disadvantages.
Opponents to this idea hold that teaching a second language for pre-teenage children may put more pressure on their study and affect the development of their mother tongue. Adding one more subject to primary schools' syllabus increases children's studying hours at school. To improve their second language, children have to spend more time at home on reviewing new knowledge such as vocabulary and grammars, thus they have less time for after school activities such as discovering a nearby forest and socialising with their peers. In addition, children who learn a second language in their early age tend to mix words from their first and second languages in the same sentence. Some experts claim that their first language is impurified. They claim that at early ages, children's mother tough does not develop well enough so obtaining a second language may distort their first immature language.
However, proponents of the idea hold that the above side-effects of learning a second language at early ages can be alleviated for the children learning a new language early. Firstly, instead of increasing the number of subjects students have to study at primary school, educators can merge some traditional subjects such as math, physics and chemistry into one subject so that children's studying hours do not increase. Schools can even consider teaching students some subjects in a second language so the learning process can be more natural and effortless. Moreover, though children can sometimes mix their first and second language in their speech, they can control both languages better in conversation once they develop better language abilities in both languages. For instance, there are many children who are bilangual but they still delivery perfect speech in both languages.
Many experts believe that allowing children to absorb a second language at early ages has various benefits for them. The earlier students learn a second language, the more naturally they can use the language as a native speaker. Additionally, learning another language can help children discover another culture and think with a different mindset from their original culture. As a result, they can be more open-minded from the early ages.
In short, though there are some disadvantages of starting teaching children a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school, the positive sides outweigh the concerns. Educators can redesign syllabus so that the learning process does not put more pressure on students and guide children to control both languages. Teaching them a second language early can help them absorb it better and be more tolerant for cultural differences.
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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 Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant example from 73
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Suggestion: betters; wells
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, still, thus, well, for instance, in addition, in short, 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: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2635.0 1615.20841683 163% => OK
No of words: 491.0 315.596192385 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.366598778 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63349179116 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.42566191446 0.561755894193 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 797.4 506.74238477 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5169867095 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.476190476 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.380952381 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52380952381 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => 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: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.318680329388 0.244688304435 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122909809895 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0825652677336 0.0667982634062 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228095579385 0.151304729494 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0678232986895 0.056905535591 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => 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: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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