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It is a common belief that children should start learning
foreign language in secondary school, but not in primary school. However, there
is a more persuasive argument that teaching foreign language in primary school has
more benefits to children compared to when they start studying it in secondary
school because children can learn new language faster in the early age.
On the one hand, when children are taught a new language in
primary school, it can cause language confusion. This is because, pupils in
primary school are relatively less developed in language skills compared to the
ones in secondary school. This means that primary school students are lacking
in understating the foreign language and they have not mastered their mother tongue
language as well. It will lead to a language confusion, where children confuse
their first and foreign language, in worst case, fail to master both languages.
According to the study taken on Koreans who live overseas, when children are
exposed to the language that their families do not speak, it results a massive
confusion and leads to a failure to speak both languages fluently.
Nevertheless, the earlier education of foreign language will
be more beneficial to students compared to the situation when they are taught
later in life. When children learn the foreign language when they are young, it
is easier for them to adopt it. A survey was conducted in America to compare
the foreign language skills of students who were taught since young, or at
secondary school. As expected, children who were taught at younger age could
use various vocabularies in appropriate situations, however, the other party had failed
to do so. Furthermore, it was observed that people at younger age tend to learn
and use the language much more faster than matured person. It indicates that it
is essential for school to provide education on foreign language in primary
school.
To sum up, while there are some disadvantages of learning
foreign language in primary school, it is evident that the advantages of earlier
education of foreign language outweigh the drawbacks.
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