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On Combining Apples and Oranges: A Response to Stahl and Miller.
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McGee, Lea M.; Lomax, Richard G. – Review of Educational Research, 1990
In the research paper considered, Stahl and Miller compare the effectiveness of whole language/language experience programs versus basal reader approaches. The article is criticized for misrepresenting concepts related to emergent literacy and inadequately defining whole language, the lack of equivalence between the two nonbasal approaches, and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading)