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The whole language method is in contrast to the [[phonics]] method.  Phonics teaches the individual components and sounds (or phonetic building blocks) which make up words, enabling the student to then determine the correct pronunciation, and often the meaning, of most words with relative ease.  The whole language method requires the student to recognize and learn new words as whole words, and rely on the context in which they appear, rather than on their phonetic building blocks, to determine their meanings.

The whole language method is in contrast to the [[phonics]] method.  Phonics teaches the individual components and sounds (or phonetic building blocks) which make up words, enabling the student to then determine the correct pronunciation, and often the meaning, of most words with relative ease.  The whole language method requires the student to recognize and learn new words as whole words, and rely on the context in which they appear, rather than on their phonetic building blocks, to determine their meanings.

The whole language approach is criticized by many [[conservative]]s and [[homeschooling|homeschoolers]], who prefer the phonics method.

The whole language approach is criticized by many [[conservative]]s and [[homeschooling|homeschoolers]], who prefer the phonics method. <ref>"The Phonics vs. 'Whole Language' Controversy", Onkar Ghate, ''Capitalism Magazine'' (February 25, 2005), http://www.capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?ID=4151</ref>

 

Indeed, this criticism is in part because [[leftist]] and cultural [[Marxist]] publications have lauded the whole language method as part of the broader changes which took hold after the 1960s; as the avowedly [[socialist]] ''Monthly Review'' puts it, "during the Vietnam era when campuses and high-schools broke into open-rebellion and, as a collateral result, critical pedagogy, whole language reading programs, inter-active, investigatory teaching gained a foothold..."<ref>"Notes from the Editors", ''Monthly Review'' Volume 60, Number 5, http://monthlyreview.org/nfte081001.php</ref>.

==See also==

==See also==

* [[New math]]

* [[New math]]

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