Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a controversial educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children.
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13 Facts About Whole language
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Whole language is an educational philosophy that is complex to describe, particularly because it is informed by multiple research fields, including but not limited to education, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology .
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One description of whole language is "a concept that embodies both a philosophy of language development as well as the instructional approaches embedded within, and supportive of that philosophy".
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Attempts to empirically verify the benefits of whole language have repeatedly resulted in evidence that whole language is less effective than phonics-based reading instruction.
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Gregory Shafer, a professor of English at Mott Community College, has claimed that "the seeds" of the whole language movement were "firmly rooted" in the theories of linguist Noam Chomsky.
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Whole language chided educators for attempting to apply what he saw as unnecessary orthographic order to a process that relied on holistic examination of words.
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Whole language emphasized that pronouncing individual words will involve the use of all three systems .
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However, in the English Whole language, there is a very imprecise relationship between written symbols and sound symbols.
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Whole language found that the children did better when they read the words in connected text.
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Whole language's determined that phonics was important but suggested that some elements of the whole language approach were helpful.
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Whole language goes on to say that, although reading science has rejected the theories behind whole language, in education they are "theoretical zombies".
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Prominent critic of whole language Louisa Cook Moats has argued that the focus on quality literature, diversity, reading groups, and motivation are not the sole property of whole language.
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Prominent proponents of whole language include Ken Goodman, Frank Smith, Carolyn Burke, Jerome Harste, Yetta Goodman, and Dorothy Watson.
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