Some expert 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 outweight the disadvantages.

Thanks to globalisation,

language

has become a more important tool for communication. Some educationists argue that students should not wait until secondary school to start learning a new

language

,

instead

they should embark on their

language

-learning journey in their primary school. Since the proposed policy has both merits and demerits, in

this

essay I will review both sides to draw a conclusion.

Such

earlier exposure to a new

language

has many advantages.

Firstly

, young

children

whose brains are still developing are more sensitive to languages.

For example

, sometimes they could understand people without knowing the meaning of specific words, just the way they master their mother tongues.

Therefore

, compared with elder learners, whose

language

learning could be less productive, they could develop greater interests in the subject and get

further

motivated by their progress.

On the other hand

,

however

, it

also

has a few disadvantages. Some say that young

children

are supposed to explore their own interests at their will, rather than being forced to learn another new subject at an early age.

Besides

, given the limited resources in some countries, it is highly possible that

children

may not be equipped with

language

teaching aids scientific and strategic enough.

For instance

, in some remote regions in China, many families are too poor to afford education, not to mention English learning. In some cases, if

children

are trained to learn English the way they crack exams, it would only dampen their interest. To summarize, adding a new

language

to the existing primary school curriculum may cause some problems. But if they can be skilfully handled without straining both the schools and

children

, the advantages would definitely outweigh the disadvantages.