Entering Children’s Literacy Through Whole Language Approach

DOI

10.2991/icei-18.2018.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Whole language; literacy; children

Abstract

The aim of this research was to determine the influence of the whole language for kindergarten students, especially in early literacy. The researcher chose a whole language approach to help children age 4-5 years understanding early literacy because it integrated 4 language capabilities: reading, writing, listening and speaking in one package, and the children could learn all materials effectively. The samples of this research were 54 kindergarten students aged 4-5 years in Surabaya, following a quasi-experimental design that had an experimental group and control group. In the experimental group, the students did various interesting activities relating to literacy, while in the control group the students did usual learning activities. In this study, the data collection technique used were observation and documentation. The results of this research suggest that students in the experimental group show a greater development at all levels in literacy compared to the students in the control group. In addition, whole language approach was proven effective for early literacy learning.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ari Susanti
AU  - Mustaji Mustaji
AU  - Umi Anugerah Izzati
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Entering Children’s Literacy Through Whole Language Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 12
EP  - 17
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icei-18.2018.4
DO  - 10.2991/icei-18.2018.4
ID  - Susanti2018/12
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