Advantages and disadvantages of learning a foreign language at primary school

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Traditionally,
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begin studying foreign
languages
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at secondary school. Many individual schools or educationalists have recommended
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foreign
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at an earlier stage.
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this
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policy may bring some advantages along with some disadvantages.
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essay will
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discuss whether extending foreign
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study to the primary stages is beneficial and if disadvantages may occur in the later stages.
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young
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pick up
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much more easily than teenagers. Their brains are programmed to learn their mother tongue which
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facilitates learning another
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. At a young age,
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are enthusiastic to explore and to learn new things. The primary
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should allow more frequent shorter sessions for maintaining
learner's
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enthusiasm and progress. Acquiring foreign
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can
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help them to understand other cultures.
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, there are some disadvantages. Primary school teachers may not have the necessary
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skills or they are not well trained for that particular
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languages
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. If any
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specialist is called
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the flexibility of sessions is diminished. Primary
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teaching needs to be standardised
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so that secondary schools do not face problems in their intake. Failing to undoes the earlier gains. In some situations, it would become very stressful to the child when he has to learn three
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i.e. native
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and foreign
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. Some researchers have shown from their studies that
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children
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have difficulties in deciding which
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to speak and may end up learning nothing, In conclusion, a standardised policy can be adopted at primary schools which can
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benefit society culturally and economically. Young
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's grasping power can make these benefits more achievable

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