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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There has been a dispute over whether children should start learning a foreign language right after they enter the school or not. Some people say that it is crucial for children to learn foreing language in order to be competitive in this ever changing world. However, as far as I am concern, I strongly believe that foreign language should not be learned as children start school due to language intervention and health problem.
To begin with, learning a foreign language from the early stage might hinder children from developing their mother tongue. Their leaning process could be interrupted by foreign language whose grammer or syntax is totally different from their own language. This may cause the language interception and those children may not acquire either language skill properly. For instance, my cousin who started learning English before he became a freshman is having a hard time to adjusting himself to the Korean language. He sometimes could not distinguish the grammertical order between korean and English and misuses korean words.
On top of that, children's health condition could be bad by stress they get from learning a foreing language too early. When they become a student, they face with many subjects such as Korean, mathmatics and feel somewhat stressful to learn all of them. However, if they encounter new subject, they can be overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do and feel uncomfortable. According to the recent survey conducted by the Chosun daily news, more rate of children are undergoing physical or emotional disorder recently due to the high pressure on learning foreing language.
In conclusion, I believe that children should not start to learn foreign language as soon as they become a elementary school student. The rationale behind these are they have hard time learning their own language and their may feel sick by the stress. It is not late to learn a foreing language after one properly handles one's mother tongue. |