whole language

noun

a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context.: Compare phonics (def. 1).

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Public uptake of the whole language approach led to massive reforms in education curriculums in the United States that de-emphasized the role of phonics when teaching children how to read and instead emphasized the meaning of words in sentences.
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But I would not advise this rapid acquisition of the whole language in so short a time.
Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School | Elizabeth P. Peabody
The huckstering spirit penetrates the whole language, all relations are expressed in business terms, in economic categories.
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 | Frederick Engels
To these should be added their respective names, and the whole language of the science should be rendered as familiar as possible.
Practical Education, Volume II | Maria Edgeworth
The whole language is sufficient, except in the excessives—the ultimates.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 | Various

Our whole language is so essentially based upon religious ideas that it would be very difficult for me to use only neutral words.
Modern Skepticism | C. J. Ellicott

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