Being able to speak a foreign language is an advantage these days. Some people think that children should start learning a foreign language at primary school, while others think children should begin in secondary school. Discuss both sides and give your opinion.

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Speaking a foreign
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is always considered a positive and it is always considered to be more beneficial to learn a foreign
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when a pupil is young because when they are young it is easier for them to grasp it.
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, it is debatable whether the learning should start at the primary or secondary
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. On one hand, as mentioned earlier learning a foreign
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at a young age is easier as compared to an adult, because children can pick up things in a faster manner.
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, the problem with
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is that children at a young age are expected to learn many things, and
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they may feel overwhelmed and not pay too much attention to learning a foreign
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.
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, when I was young growing up in Dubai, English as a
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was enough to survive.
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, no matter how much my parents tried to teach me Malayalam, it would end up being a futile process. Alternately, if youngsters are taught foreign languages at a secondary school
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, they are more likely to stick with it, because they realise the importance of it. They understand that if they know a foreign
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, it will more likely help in their pursuits for a job. An instance of
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, going back to the example mentioned above, now living in Kerala, where the mother tongue is Malayalam, I now realise the difficulty, because not all jobs require English as a
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, they require Malayalam, which hampers my chances of landing a job. In conclusion, whilst I feel that learning a foreign
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is important, I believe that the basics should be taught at the primary
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and
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it should be continued at the secondary
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when the teenagers are old enough to understand the importance of learning an alternate
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • cognitive development
  • globalized world
  • language acquisition
  • pronunciation
  • critical thinking
  • culturally aware
  • language interference
  • motivated approach
  • curriculum demands
  • natural learning abilities
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