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The Rhetoric of Whole Language.
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Moorman, Gary B.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Analyzes 18 articles selected as representative explanations of the whole-language position. Finds three themes that frame the thought and activities of the movement: general definitions, learning and teaching, and reading and reading instruction. Analyzes the articles using deconstruction to find their implicit assumptions, revealing underlying…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Meta Analysis
The Rhetoric of "The Rhetoric of Whole Language."
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Cambourne, Brian – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Responds to an article in the same journal on the rhetoric of whole language. Challenges issues of representation, motives involved, and the small unrepresentative sample involved. Discusses the rhetoric of camouflage. (SR)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Research
Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Moorman, Blanton, and McLaughlin: A Response.
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Goodman, Kenneth S. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Responds to an article in the same journal on the rhetoric of whole language. Shows how the authors of that article fail to do what they set out to do from their own perspective. Discusses choice of sources, treating the language seriously, and language without substance. Shows how those authors judge whole language not by its own principles but…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Research
Rhetoric and Community in Whole Language: A Response to Cambourne, Willinsky, and Goodman.
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Moorman, Gary B.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Responds to three articles (in the same journal) which responded to an article by these authors on the rhetoric of whole language. Discusses the nature of professional discourse. (SR)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Research
Theory and Meaning in Whole Language: Engaging Moorman, Blanton, and McLaughlin.
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Willinsky, John – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Responds to an article in the same journal on the rhetoric of whole language. Provides alternative readings in the defining and deconstructing of whole language, and argues that its sense will come from the points of difference rather than from the precision of final definitions. (SR)
Descriptors: Definitions, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education