Some people believe that all children should learn a foreign language from the
time they start school, while others believe it is better to wait until a child is at secondary school.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Learning foreign languages is increasingly becoming widespread, not only among adults, but also among children. Teaching children foreign languages is not as easy as teaching their mother tongue, but despite some difficulties and peculiarities related to their young age, children are showing significant improvement nowadays. There is a disagreement between people who want their children to learn foreign languages from the time they begin attending school and those who do not support this argument because of young learners' age and capabilities. This essay will consider both sides and argue that it is more effective and fruitful to learn languages at a young age.
Some people believe that young learners are too young to learn foreign languages. They are mostly worried about the oncoming difficulties and believe that their children might not be able to cope. There are some factors that a child may face in the beginning, such as misunderstanding the concept because of their biological age, confusing with the words of language one, and more challenges related to any beginner language learner. In my opinion, a benefit of learning a foreign language later, namely, at secondary school, could be unstressed childhood. However, there is another group thinking that learning languages at a young age only brings benefits to the future of a child. Those people argue that learners will save time and energy if they start to learn a foreign language with their native language simultaneously. Moreover, giving the learners an opportunity to learn a foreign language at early years of their life may make them become adaptive to new things, cultures, changes that they will face in the future by experiencing them in childhood. Overall, there are more advantages than disadvantages of learning a second or foreign language at a young age than learning it when one has lived a decade on Earth speaking only one language.
To conclude, there are benefits and drawbacks of both of the options, but beginning a learning foreign languages from elementary school exceeds benefits. Even though it may make young learners face bigger challenges and put more effort than they might have faced by eliminating the process of learning, starting it earlier than it was used to start at teenage years will bring cultural awareness of other countries and a soft-skill to easily adapt to them.
Some
people
believe
that all
children
should
learn
a
foreign
language
from the
time they
start
school
, while others
believe
it is better to wait until a child is at secondary school.
Discuss both views and give your
own
opinion.
Learning
foreign
languages
is
increasingly
becoming widespread, not
only
among adults,
but
also
among
children
. Teaching
children
foreign
languages
is not as easy as teaching their mother tongue,
but
despite
some
difficulties and peculiarities related to their
young
age
,
children
are showing significant improvement nowadays. There is a disagreement between
people
who want their
children
to
learn
foreign
languages
from the time they
begin
attending
school
and those who do not support this argument
because
of
young
learners'
age
and capabilities. This essay will consider both sides and argue that it is more effective and fruitful to
learn
languages
at a
young
age.
Some
people
believe
that
young
learners
are too
young
to
learn
foreign
languages
. They are
mostly
worried about the oncoming difficulties and
believe
that their
children
might not be able to cope. There are
some
factors that a child may face in the beginning, such as misunderstanding the concept
because
of their biological
age
, confusing with the words of
language
one, and more challenges related to any beginner
language
learner
. In my opinion, a
benefit
of
learning
a
foreign
language
later,
namely
, at secondary
school
, could
be unstressed
childhood.
However
, there is another group thinking that
learning
languages
at a
young
age
only
brings
benefits
to the future of a child. Those
people
argue that
learners
will save time and energy if they
start
to
learn
a
foreign
language
with their native
language
simultaneously
.
Moreover
, giving the
learners
an opportunity to
learn
a
foreign
language
at early years of their life may
make
them become adaptive to new things, cultures,
changes
that they will face in the future by experiencing them in childhood.
Overall
, there are more advantages than disadvantages of
learning
a second or
foreign
language
at a
young
age
than
learning
it when one has
lived
a decade on Earth speaking
only
one language.
To conclude
, there are
benefits
and drawbacks of both of the options,
but
beginning a
learning
foreign
languages
from elementary
school
exceeds
benefits
.
Even though
it may
make
young
learners
face bigger challenges and put more effort than they might have faced by eliminating the process of
learning
, starting it earlier than it was
used
to
start
at teenage years will bring cultural awareness of other countries and a soft-
skill
to
easily
adapt to them.