[NIFL-4EFF:2360] theory (whole language) and motivation

From: tom zurinskas (tzurinskas@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 14:58:12 EDT


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The article written below is the scariest I have ever
read.  Written in 1998 after so many years of "whole
language" in our school systems, it can only summon up
mainly "theoretical reasons" why whole language helps
motivation.  It cites one study of 8 students, and
another of a class self reported by a teacher using WL
that agrees with the authors premise.  Unbelievable.

Tom Zurinskas



--- George Demetrion <george.demetrion@lvgh.org>
wrote:
> As part of our discussion on reading theory and
> practice, perhaps the
> following article, "Continuities Between
> Motivational Research and
> Philosophy of Instruction," published in a recent
> edition of the Journal of
> Literacy Research, which can be accessed below, may
> be instructive.
> 
>
http://nrc.oakland.edu/jlr/archive/v30/article_30_3_1.pdf
> 
> George Demetrion
> 


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