“A whole language is not something you do; the whole language is something one believes in and something which guides one's research, learning and teaching” (I Do Whole Language on Friday the 18th). The whole language or socio-psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction is not a curriculum, but rather a set of beliefs. “The whole language is a philosophical position” (I Do Whole Language on Friday the 18th). This theory is a student-centered approach with the perspective that learning occurs best when information is presented as a whole rather than broken down into smaller pieces that lead to meaning creation. “The teaching of English is not a fixed system, nor an exact science” (Foster 12). Students are expected to create and construct their own knowledge based on their encounters and experiences. There are competing ideologies about how a classroom should be managed. This is the transmission model of behaviorist teaching and transactional teaching, which the entire language represents. The delivery model is one that many of us are used to seeing in traditional classrooms, where the teacher essentially reads from a script written by a textbook company or someone else outside of the class. On the other side of the spectrum is language as a whole. This can be described as a “transactional model of teaching and learning, in which learners actively engage with their teachers, classmates and environment in order to create their curriculum” (I Do Whole Language on Friday 18 ). This philosophy provides a possible bright future and a major change in our educational system that we know so well. One of the best qualities of language as a whole is that it "recognizes and embraces differences in students' abilities and in...... middle of paper......ed , but not according to a strict schedule created by the school. As all students learn differently, they will all have their own personal goals. A student's achievement may be completely different from that of their classmates, but if they achieve this goal, they continue to improve. A traditional classroom does not allow this type of success, because there are only right and wrong answers (The reading/writing workshop 39). The whole language approach to teaching is a growing philosophy, although it has been around for years, that many are hesitant to try in their own classroom. If more teachers read the research and articles about the benefits of language as a whole, I think this would become the standard belief among teachers. Students can greatly benefit from a transactional classroom where they can create their own meaning through their schemas and experiences..