Whole Language Approach

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Whole Language Approach
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• Definition
• The simultaneous, integrated teaching of
  listening, speaking, reading, and writing within
  a meaningful context

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• Inventors
• Noam Chomsky and Goodman

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• Principles

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• Teach English as spoken by native speakers
• No phonics!
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• Emphasis on experience and exposure to meaningful
  content

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• Lessons should be learner centered
• The teacher leads and guides
• No dyslexic students everyone remembers

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• Method
• Big books
• The use of predictable text

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BIG BOOKS-

• Enlarged text
• Students begin to make the association between
  oral and written language
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• Rhythm, rhyme and repetition combine to aid word
  recognition and identification
• Many key words repeat themselves

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Activities with big books

• Pause before a familiar word so students can fill
  in the missing words
• Let students complete the rhymes
• Students make their own book
• Weak learners Strong learners
• Adjust text or copy
  Change/improvise text

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NEEDED SKILLS

• READING
• LISTENING
• SPEAKING
• WRITING

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Advantages

• Sight-reading
• Students learn structure instead of parts of
  speech
• Students notice commonly used structures

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Disadvantages

• The method is good, but not as a primary one!!
• Not recommended for students who cant spell or
  read these students need phonics
• Because students are used to sight- reading, they
  are unable to read unfamiliar words

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