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Download full textWang, Pei-ling – English Language Teaching, 2011
The purposes of this study are: (1) to investigate students' perceptions of computer-assisted whole language instruction; (2) to examine the effectiveness of whole language instruction on students' reading improvement; and (3) to determine the difference between basic-level and advanced-level students' improvement in reading skills. A total of 212…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Barr, Ada M. – 1994
A study investigated whether whole language principles had "seeped" into secondary language arts teaching in Cass County, Michigan by surveying teachers' attitudes. A total of 14 of the 15 language arts teachers in the four secondary schools in the county returned completed surveys. Results indicated that the language arts teachers (1)…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Arts, Reading Research, Teacher Attitudes
Brungardt, Susan – 1994
A study investigated the attitudes toward reading of third-grade students involved in a whole language program. The sample consisted of 71 students--48 students participated in the study group, and a control group consisted of 23 students. The independent variables were participation status, gender, socioeconomic status, race, qualification for…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedRhodes, Lynn K.; Shanklin, Nancy L. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Discusses the procedures for using the Classroom Reading Miscue Assessment which was developed by Denver area Coordinators/Consultants Applying Whole Language to help teachers efficiently gather miscue data. (MG)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Reading Instruction
Rivaldo, Renee – 1994
Since phonemic awareness is a crucial element in the invented spelling process, a survey of 15 whole language teachers determined the standpoint of phonemic awareness in the philosophy of whole language teachers. The 15 teachers, all 5 kindergarten and 10 first-grade teachers in a school district in western New York, were administered a 16-item…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 1, Invented Spelling, Misconceptions
Starrett, Edmund V. – 2000
Presenting the positive role phonics can play in a student's ability to learn to read, this book emphasizes that phonics can be extremely beneficial when it is integrated as a part of a balanced reading program. Based on the author's real-world experience, the book covers the entire range of practical phonics applications for the elementary…
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Phonics
Kunze, Caroline Ryan – 1994
A practicum was developed to improve the inferential comprehension, the textual and functional skills, and the overall attitudes toward reading of fifth-grade students. A target group of six students in a private school who were deficient in these skills was established. The practicum contained basic strategies for improving reading skills and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Private Schools, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedSippola, Arne E. – Reading Horizons, 1994
Provides a brief synopsis of whole-language characteristics that could be germane to analyses of basal programs. Presents an assessment tool designed to assist teachers, administrators, and curriculum adoption teams in evaluating the degree to which commercial basal reader programs adhere to whole-language characteristics. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Holistic Evaluation
Barry, Martha H.; And Others – 1992
A study examined the reading approaches used by teachers and how accurately the teachers described the approaches to reading they purported to use. Subjects, 206 teachers in 19 elementary schools from 9 schools districts in a southeastern state, completed a questionnaire. Results indicated that (1) 68.75% of the teachers cited the basal as their…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Questionnaires, Reading Instruction
Garofalo, Carol – 1991
A descriptive study determined the extent to which the language experience approach (LEA) is used in the kindergarten and first grades of six northwest Bergen County, New Jersey, school districts. Anonymous surveys were mailed to all kindergarten and first-grade teachers in these districts. Forty-five (63%) of the surveys were returned. Results…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Educational Research, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Schiffer, Edward W. – 1989
A practicum explored the use of instructional materials based on the whole language approach to second language learning in adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction. The approach was implemented in a beginning ESL classroom at an adult education center that had previously used publisher textbooks, which were not thought to provide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Botenhagen, Jennifer L. – 1995
A study examined strategies for embedding literacy skills within a whole language program. A questionnaire was given to full-time whole language elementary school teachers who taught in kindergarten through second-grade classrooms. All the participants teach in suburban school districts in the Bay Area including San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Primary Education, Questionnaires, Reading Materials
Al-Tamimi, Yaser; Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Online Submission, 2007
This study investigates the effect of phonological awareness instruction on the development of word-reading ability for EFL first-graders in a Jordanian state school. Based on Chard and Dickson's (1999) phonological awareness hierarchy, a phonological awareness training program was developed by the researchers, and used in training the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills, English (Second Language)
Dickinson, Susan – 1992
A practicum was designed to increase the amount of recreational reading by secondary school students, and to improve students' attitude toward reading, thus decreasing disruptive behaviors in the classroom. A whole language workshop approach was implemented over an 8-month period in two high school English classes, grades 10 and 11, college…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, High School Students, High Schools, Motivation Techniques
Hurst, Betina S. – 1991
Outcomes of a staff development program based on the whole language philosophy that was implemented in a rural Florida elementary school are presented in this practicum report. Two surveys of 29 and 35 faculty, respectively, indicated needs for faculty cohesiveness, a unified purpose, and an update of language arts teaching skills. A staff…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English Instruction, Faculty Development, Professional Development
