Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary schools rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Globalisations require people to be proficient in linguistics so some countries set up a foreign

language

in their education system

besides

their mother tongue since elementary level.

Also

, some experts approve that commencing learning a foreign

language

in primary

school

is better than secondary

school

.

This

essay will discuss the benefits that outweigh the disadvantage of

this

issue, followed by a conclusion. On the one hand,

children

have the capacity of acquiring a new

language

early so it increases the likelihood to achieve fluency in their childhood. According to research, a 3-year-old child has all the basic requirements to approach a foreign

language

. Since

then

, he has far more years to improve and achieve perfect skills to be from normal to bilingual.

For Instance

, in Holland and Norway, English is taught at a very young age, so more than 95% of adults in these countries could speak English at an advanced level.

In addition

, absorbing a

second

language

in primary

school

should improve overall cognitive abilities that benefit all development in a child’s brain. An illustration of

this

is that a recent survey in Cambridge University reports the fact that

children

who have chances to study a new

language

before the age of 5 are more likely to gain higher scores in Math and Science.

On the other hand

, some people suppose that

children

taught a

second

language

at a young age might get confused with their mother tongue and even hardly obtain full knowledge in other subjects.

Nevertheless

, there is no evidence to support

this

view when

children

from bilingual families do as well in both languages.

For example

, my own cousin brought up speaking both Vietnamese and English outperform most of his classmates and achieve the

first

position in

school

rank. To sum up, the merit of approaching a foreign

language

in primary

school

overshadows all the demerit. Becoming bilingual when we were young makes more opportunities for them to follow other projects

such

as investigations or training soft skills,... In the near future, I believe that the government in some countries will develop the education system by adding a

second

language

to the elementary curriculum.