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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should begin studying a foreign language as soon as they start school.

When considering education of foreign language, there are various opinions because values among the people are diversified in affluent societies of recent year. Whereas some people believe that children should begin studying a foreign language as soon as they start school, others do not. I am personally in agreement with the latter opinion, for there are more valuable things that children around should learn before learning a foreign language. My answer is based on the following two points.

Firstly, children should learn their first language because their competence to express depends on it. That is to say, they should make a foundation of language at first. As an illustration, in the case of Japan, Japan is high context culture, and Japanese people have to obtain the ability to read between the lines. Then, children should be educated the ability by reading Japanese book. Moreover, they have to know their culture and history, and to be able to express their opinions and feelings. For the sake of it, the skill of native language must be intensified. Without those skills, they would neither be able to introduce their country nor be able to explain their emotions and ideas, even after obtaining an English skill.　Therefore, children should learn regarding their native country.

Secondly, children in the lower grades of elementary school cannot comprehend grammar. It is best way to learn a foreign language to learn its grammar because of wide application, but they are too young to learn it. Some people may insist that it is easier for children to assimilate knowledge and they do not need to learn grammar; however it is demonstrated scientifically that the way of memorizing changes as they grow up and only infants can master a language. Even if they can absorb knowledge as it is, they should spend for a prolonged time to memorize a lot of words and phrases. What they learn by heart will not be applied to other because they do not know grammar. In this way, when learning a foreign language, children should learn grammar, but little children do not have comprehension.

In conclusion, as noted above, given obtaining children’s competence to explain and their incomprehensibility of grammar, they should not commence studying a foreign language as soon as they start elementary school.

Answer: disagree
Reason: there are more valuable things that children should learn before learning a foreign language
Detail1: children should learn their first language
Detail2: children should learn grammar of foreign language