Some experts 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 outweigh the disadvantage?

Language acquisition at early stage of education is considered to have significant impacts on children rather than deferring it to secondary school. From my perspective, the trend of accessing a new language at an early age has more advantages than disadvantages.

On the one hand, many believed that allowing children to acquire a foreign language could pose them several possibilities drawbacks. Firstly, primary students should focus on the fundametals of science subjests such as Mathematics, Physic, Science,... instead of learning a non-native language which requires a large amount of time and practices. These subjects are of importance to achieve prospective jobs which helps them lead a more stable life in the future. Additionally, confusion in acquiring native language is likely to be caused because children have to learn many languages stimultanously. For the fact that juveniles are in the process of establishing their mother-tonge at this point of their life, being a bilingual at an early stage of their childhood can cause cognitive overload which results in linguistic overwhelming.

On the other hand, the advocates of this opinion claimed that teaching a foreign language early will bring a number of benfits for primary pupils. Primarily, they are very receptive to new knowledge, especially new language. Their curiousity allows them to mimic and duplicate different pronunciation, therefore, are likely to enable them to have natural sounding as well as nature-like accent. Moreover, researches on bilingualism on children also suggest that exposure to more than one language is an excellent of flexing brain muscles. To illustrate, children with linguistic abilities demonstrated cognitive advantages such as increased problem-solving skills, creativity,...

In conclusion, it is clear that the negative effects of bilingualism on primary children could be counterproductive, but I believe that its compelling benefits do prevail over these downsides.