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Making Fundamental Changes in Education: Is "Whole Language" Feasible?
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Wheeler, Garon – TESL Canada Journal, 1995
Focuses on the history of the whole language approach, which arose out of the ancient notion of teaching as an art rather than a science. The approach is unable to demonstrate its superiority with statistics, a requirement for introducing radical changes in education. The tendency to avoid substantial change in second-language teaching is expected…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Change Agents, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Change