20世纪后期,以美国心理语言学家古德曼(Goodman)为代表的一批学者,将儿童语言教育置于社会文化环境中进行再思考,并且吸收了当代有关儿童语言发展的研究成果,开展了“全语言”(Whole language,也称整体语言)的语言教育改革运动。古德曼最早给全语言的定义是:“全语言教育是一种视儿童语言发展和语言学习为整体的思维方式。”全语言 In the late twentieth century, a group of scholars represented by Goodman, the American psycho-linguist, placed children’s language education in a social and cultural environment and rethought, and absorbed contemporary research findings on the development of children’s language The language education reform movement of “Whole language” (Whole language). Goodman’s earliest definition of the whole language is: “Whole language education is a way of thinking that depends on children’s language development and language learning as a whole.” "