whole language

collocation in English

meaningsofwholeandlanguage

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whole
adjective
uk
/həʊl/
us
/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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language
noun
uk
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
us
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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(Definition ofwholeandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwhole language

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Both schools used a "mixed" method of teaching reading with awholelanguagebias.
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They attended schools that provided a version of thewholelanguageapproach to reading which did not include explicit instruction on individual letter-phoneme correspondences.
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Partisans ofwholelanguagetend to draw their support from functional linguists, whereas adherents of phonics get it from formalists.
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The second part offers 17 descriptions of little known languages and ofwholelanguagegroups.
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The net for thewholelanguageis of course infinite.
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Evaluating thewholelanguageapproach to language arts : the pros and cons.
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Spelling skills of children inwholelanguageand phonics classrooms.
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Presenting the six compilation steps (analyses and transformations) for thewholelanguagewould be lengthy and tiresome.
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The implementation covers almost thewholelanguage, but virtually no optimisations have yet been implemented.
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The problem we immediately confronted was: what is a sufficiently expressive framework in which to specify thewholelanguage?
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What's whole inwholelanguage?
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What's whole inwholelanguage.
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From a learning perspective, also, a subset-free trigger is a distinctly odd phenomenon, since it triggers thewholelanguageat once from any prior state of learning.
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Ambiguity is thus not meant to cover awholelanguage.
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The main difference between the method used by the control groups and that used by the experimental groups was the opportunity to usewholelanguagein meaningful interactions.
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Instruction in reading and writing in the elementary grades was based on awholelanguagephilosophy; however, there was some skill instruction in phonics, spelling, and handwriting.
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What is more, thewholelanguageof the speech was in pejorative terms.
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This is thewholelanguageof education.
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