Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should begin learning a foreign language as soon as they start school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
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In Korea, a lot of controversies exist over whether education for English should start since elementary school or not. Also, many mass media have reported side effects that early English Education brings such as low-ability to speak mother tongue, eventual rooting out national identity from kids and so forth. However, I firmly believe that learning foreign language should be given to children as early as possible because getting the ability to speak English is much easier for younger agers. In addition, acquiring foreign language would inspire children to have interests in other cultures. First off, the younger people start to learn foreign language, the better they improve. There is no doubt that younger people's capacity to memorize is a lot better than older ones. This is because human's brain also gets older and weaker as the brain becomes full of wasteful data with time. Therefore, childeren's brains are unadulterized. As for me, I started learning English since I was nine years old and still keep studying for it. Even though I have continued learning English, the vocabulary that I remember are almost what I memorized at my younger years. After starting school life, my life is full of studying other subjects and dealing with friends. The fact has made me feel hard to get closer to English as I get older because another language is far cry from my actual life. For this reason, Children should start meeting other languages before their brains deny it. On top of that, getting to know of foreign language incites the interests in diverse culture. As many studies show the strong relationship between language and culture, it does not take any specialist to know how one culture has an effect on its own language. This can also be applied on my experience. Before I learned English, I did not even know if there were other countries but Japan. Because, I had heard a bunch of information about Japan since young because Korean culture and history are inevitably relevant to those of Japan. However, after I learned the existence of English, I began wondering who are using this language. Subsequently, I looked up the encyclopedia and also started to be interested in the World Map. As seen in my case, language roles as a window to other cultures. Since the period of entering school is optimal time for educating about other cultures or other worlds, it is necessary for schoolers to initiate their education on foreign language.
All in all, it is much better for children to learn English as soon as they enter schools, for their still-fresh brain and for evoking their inquiry towards world matters. It is unavoidable to feel the need to know other languages well in this international society. If we cannot just object this flow, just follow this trend earlier than other competitors to come first in this hectic and vicious world. |