IELTS Band 6 Essay | Advantage/Disadvantage | Education
Children are generally more successful in foreign language studies than adults. Thus, it is better to learn languages in childhood. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Submitted on: Mon Oct 14 2024
Yes, I completely agree, I feel children have more capacity in young age to learn compared to adults.
Kids tend to have calm and clear mind which supports them to grasp topics and any thing that was learnt in school or home it stays with us for a long time, but with adults there are responsibilities that has to be taken care of, and they will not be able to concentrate or give much time on learnings.
Language plays an important role in our life, it is a bridge that connects people from different parts of the world, many learn languages because of the passion, but is its often found that grown ups take time more than kids do, in order to integrate these learnings into their life some schools and colleges have an additional foreign language courses available along with their native language.
I can give my personal example in this topic, my school had Sanskrit and Hindi as additional languages which was very new to me but I had the excitement to learn, when I was about to finish my school, I was able to build a conversation in both the languages, but now I have been trying to learn Turkish which is a little difficult because I am not able to give time to study and practise it.
Finally, I believe kids should be taught new languages when they are young where they have plenty of opportunity to practice and learn from their mistakes, whereas for grown ups a lot more time, and practise is very much needed.
- Task Achievement: 6
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- Grammatical Range and Accuracy: 6
Feedback:
The essay presents a clear opinion and provides some supporting evidence. However, the structure is somewhat disjointed, and the conclusion is repetitive. More specific examples and a stronger analysis of the differences between learning as a child and as an adult would improve the essay.
