Some Educational Programs Emphasize Whole-Word Recognition Skills, Because There Is

question 36

Multiple Choice

Some educational programs emphasize whole-word recognition skills, because there is good evidence that strong readers use whole-word recognition. What is a criticism of this approach?

• A) It ignores linguistic relativity.
• B) It assumes that phonetic decomposition is a higher-level cognitive process.
• C) It ignores the influence of language acquisition devices.
• D) It mistakes a correlate of good reading for the cause of good reading.

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