KABANATA 15

Literacy in
Minority
Language and
Multicultural
Societies
 Mga Taga-Ulat:

Ma.Edna Porras
Marsan Dela Salde
 Ano ang
Literacy/Liter
asi?
 and Multicultural Societies
Literacy is Needed for Survival
 Literacy is Needed for Learning
 Literacy is Needed for Citizenship
 Literacy is Needed for Personal
Relationship
 Literacy is Needed for Personal Pleasure
and Creativity
 Literacy is Needed for Employment
 Literacy is for Community
development and Political
Empowerment
 Literacy is Needed to Empower the
 The Whole Language Approach

Whole Language instruction treats reading and writing as reciprocal or mutually enhancing process. Learning to read is also learning to write. A child learns to spell when learning to
read. The more children read, the more their writing improves.
As students received feedback on their writings. Through conference with the teacher, in small groups and
in pairs, they learn to make the corrections necessary to convey their derived messages effectively .
 The philosophy of the whole language approach is that literacy instruction must be intellectually stimulating, personally relevant and enjoyable for the learners. This
occurs when reading and writing in value read natural events, not artificial stories, artificial sequences, rules of grammar and spelling, or stories that are not relevant
to the child’s experience.
Reading and writing need to be interesting, relevant to the child’s experience, allowing choice by the
learner, giving children power and understanding of their world .
 Children learn to read and write when there is a need to understand the meaning of a story , to chant a rhyme, to share the humor of a book. Writing is fun when it is
Communication. Part of a whole language approach is to stimulate the creative imagination and share enjoyment in reading. Much of what children and adults read is for leisure and
pleasure, and while not politically neutral or morally objective, novels, magazines, comics and some poetry are designed to satisfy and stir the imaginations .
Literacy in the whole language approach is thus to develop aesthetic appreciation and interpersonal sensitivity which is a more empowering view of the language
minority student than a functional approach.
 The Construction of Meaning Approach

Whole language approach is constructivist. It emphasizes that readers bring their own meaning to text, that reading and writing is essentially a construction
and reconstruction of meaning.
Readers bring meaning with them to texts. They make sense of a text from previously acquired knowledge.
Without relevant background knowledge, readers may fail to construct much real meaning.
One role for teachers therefore is to mediate in the construction of meaning by learners who are
becoming literate, helping them construct meaning from text.
A central idea in constructing meaning derivers from the Russian psychologist Vygotsky, during the decade 1924-1934, he out bind the
ways that teachers can intervene and arrange effective learning, by challenging and extending the child’s current state of development.
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