This project explores the understanding of early year’s teachers regarding whole language approach and its
implementation. A total of 200 questionnaires were delivered to teachers at nurseries and kindergartens in an
EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context. 169 questionnaires were completed and analysed. The findings
shows that an overwhelming majority of the participants know idea of whole language approach and know its
value and relevance to improving early year literacy teaching. The result showed that teachers’ perspective about
literacy teaching clustered primarily in the interactive approach which indicated that most teachers prefer neither
whole language approach nor skills based approach.