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language-experience approach

a method of reading instruction that uses the child’s spoken language to supply the words and stories for teaching reading. In this approach, the child is encouraged to describe personal experiences, which are recorded by the teacher. They then read these written stories together until the child can associate written and spoken forms of words and read independently. [introduced in the 1960s by Roach Van Allen (d. 1998)]

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elective bilingualism

elective bilingualism

see elite bilingualism.