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?

With the globalisation, not only adult people learn foreign languages, but many children

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study foreign tongues in our modern society.

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, I believe that

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children have more positive outcomes when they learn a foreign

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when they start going to

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rather than they learn it in secondary

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. On the one hand, opponents of early

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education argue that pupils should wait to study a foreign

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until secondary education, because

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children might be confused between their own native

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and the foreign tongues that they learn at

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, experts claim that people learn languages more efficiently when they have contrast, so it will help children to learn a foreign

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comparing with their own

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argued that elementary

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students tend to be very busy and tired due to their fixed academical timetables which prevent them from learning extra subjects. In fact, pupils before puberty have

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a special ability

to learn languages easier than people in

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adolescence

or adulthood and that will help children learn

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without difficulties.

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, despite the fact that children in elementary

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are more likely to be

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bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude

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to their busy academic schedules, I strongly feel that children learn things more effectively when they start learning them at the early stage.

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, pupils in primary education are usually passionate enough to learn new things, and they do not feel fear to make mistakes as well that can motivate them to learn more. Another positive reason to learn languages in primary schools is that the development of cognitive skills.

Recent study shows

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A recent study shows

that learning foreign tongues is similar to learning mathematics according to the

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a result

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of the brain systems, which will be beneficial when they learn advanced science skills later on. In short,

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children in primary

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the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

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and the foreign

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a small price to pay when it comes to the more developed cognitive skills that they will have later.

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, I believe that studying a foreign

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in primary

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rather than later outweighs the disadvantages.