Whole Language and Phonics Approaches: Effect On Reading Fluency and Spelling Accuracy of Eighth Grade Students
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of whole language instruction and phonics
instruction
for
improving
reading
fluency
and
spelling
accuracy
of
the
eighth
grade
students
whose
English
is
as
their
foreign
language
(L2).
The
research
is
conducted
at
SMP
Insan
Rabbany
BSD
South
Tangerang
Banten.
The
students
were
assigned
to
read
the
whole
language
before
and
after
given
the
phonics
instruction
in
order
to
see
if
there
was
a
significant
difference.
In
February
2017,
after
six
weeks
of
treatment,
there
was
a significant improvement in both reading fluency
and spelling accuracy for the students were used to the words given. Phonics instruction had a
great influence in helping the students collect and get use to using the vocabularies which then
used in the reading passage.