托福寫作高分滿分范文點評和思路解析：從小學外語的必要性

　　Should children begin learning a foreign language as soon as they start school?

　　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.

　　寫作思路展開結(jié)構(gòu)分析

　　這是一個有爭議的話題。不同意這個觀點可能更好寫一些。盡管從表面上來看兒童確實在學習語言方面有天賦，但是學習母語是一回事兒，而學習外語是完全另外一回事。外語不是單詞、句型那么簡單(Learning English involves much more than merely memorizing vocabulary and grammar rules)。語言是表達思想的，某種程度上學習外語，超出了兒童的能力范圍——尤其是對剛剛上學，甚至不知道學習為何物的兒童。極端的例子是河北省有一對夫婦(都是大學教師)，孩子才6歲，父親教他英文，母親教他日文，結(jié)果孩子出現(xiàn)了失語癥(失語者 aphasic; 失語癥 aphasia)。

　　本話題高分范文賞析

　　More and more international corporations build their business in my country, China. At the same time, more parents tell their children that English is one of necessities to be successful in the future.

　　Students work so hard to master English that English learning related publications have always been on the top of the best-seller list.

　　It seems clear that one will be better off if he/she is a bilingual, and if the second language is English, even better! However, learning a foreign language must have been painful, since people are continuously creating all sorts of methods and suggestions on how to learn it more easily, more quickly, and more efficiently. Some people propose that children should begin learning English as soon as they start school. But would it really work? Hardly.

　　It seems true that children have natural amazing ability to develop their language skills. Statistic figures show that a 6-year-old boy can virtually memorize nearly as many as 150 words a day! But things become different when the child is learning a foreign language. When children are learning their mother tongue, they are not alone, and they are learning with numerous handy aids around. Parents, friends, and all the people around them are talking the same language, without any grammar error and nearly uniform intonation and pronunciation.

　　However, when they are learning a foreign language, all of those natural aids disappeared. And words become really foreign and abstract after they leave classes. And even worse, their teacher might have a bad accent or even wrong pronunciation. Some may adduce children in Luxembourg as evidence, but the point is that almost all parents in that place are trilingual!

　　Learning a foreign language well involves much more than merely memorizing handful vocabulary or several grammar rules. If a girl is able to say hello in a standard American accent, does that really mean she has learned a second language well, or she will go so far as to be a linguist? In fact, learning a foreign language in some sense is beyond the capacity of children, especially as little as first grade pupil, for language is used to express thoughts and ideas, both of which are naturally cultural and historical, and are sometimes too complex for children to comprehend. After all, learning earlier doesn't automatically guarantee learning quicker or better.