Whole language and language experience approaches for beginning reading: A quantitative research synthesis

SA Stahl, PD Miller - Review of educational research, 1989 - journals.sagepub.com
… First, whole language/language experience approaches may be more … to whole
language/language experience methods. Fourth, whole language/language experience approaches

… to three studies on reading acquisition: Convergent findings on theoretical foundations of code-oriented versus whole-language approaches to reading instruction.

FR Vellutino - Journal of educational psychology, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
This article reviews research bearing on the theoretical foundations of code-oriented versus
whole-language approaches to reading instruction, with a focus on the following issues:(a) …

Research on “the great debate”: Code-oriented versus whole language approaches to reading instruction

BR Foorman - School Psychology Review, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
… emphasis approach (whose symbol-mediation has been challenged recently by the pattern
recognition proponents of connectionism); versus (b) a whole language approach which has …

[PDF][PDF] for Whole Language

C Edelsky - REPORT NO PUB DATE, 1991 - ERIC
… Research done about whole language by people who are not whole language educators or
researchers is usually" horse-race research": which" approach" gets there faster/better? The …

The effects of whole-language instruction: An update and a reappraisal

SA Stahl, MC McKenna, JR Pagnucco - Educational psychologist, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
… of whole language originally co~nducted by Stahl and Miller (1989). Using studies conducted
since 1988, the present meta-analysis suggests that whole-language approaches … a whole, …

An experiment with a modified whole language approach in first‐grade classrooms

L Eldredge - Literacy Research and Instruction, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
… effectiveness of a modified whole language approach and a basal approach on first-grade …
modified whole language approach incorporated all of the characteristics of whole language

Whole language: What's new?

B Altwerger, C Edelsky, BM Flores - The reading teacher, 1987 - JSTOR
… Lately we have seen Whole Language misrepresented by a whole word perspective (at a
re cent conference, there was a booth selling Whole Language pocket charts for sight words). …

Defining and describing whole language

DJ Watson - The Elementary School Journal, 1989 - journals.uchicago.edu
… classrooms; and phonics, as a prescribed skill-and-drill program rather than a cue to be used
in concert with all the cues of language, is incompatible with a wholelanguage perspective …

The rhetoric of whole language

GB Moorman, WE Blanton, T McLaughlin - Reading Research Quarterly, 1994 - JSTOR
… that whole language advocates … whole language position (eg, Adams, 1990). The arguments
of these critics suggest that the radical changes necessary to implement whole language

Why innovations come and go (and mostly go): The case of whole language

SA Stahl - Educational Researcher, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
… of the whole language movement. This paper reviews three aspects of the whole language
… movement to be as accepted by mainstream educators as whole language was. Second, …