COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH

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COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH

• (CALLA)
• Principles and Techniques

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GOAL AND PROCESS

• GOAL
• To prepare intermediate and advanced academic EAP
  students with the language necessary to learn
  through integration of language and content

• PROCESS
• 4 content areas to be phased in
• science (much contextual support)
• math (less context support, restricted vocab)
• social studies (very context-dependent)
• language arts (most lang. Dependent)

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PROCESS (contd)

• 3 components
• curriculum that correlates with mainstream
  content courses
• language development integrated with content
  subjects
• instruction in use of learning strategies

• Need to address
• contextual use of clues for comprehension
• task complexity (higher level reasoning)
• use of learning strategies (metacognitive,
  cognitive, social-affective)
• kind of knowledge necessary (declarativewhat we
  know proceduralhow we learn)

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PROCESS (PART 3) TECHNIQUES

• CALLA lesson plan
• preparation
• presentation
• practice
• evaluation
• expansion

• Techniques include
• Advanced organizers
• Self-monitoring
• Inferencing
• Summarizing
• Grouping
• Imagery
• Clarification questioning
• Reflection
• Organizational planning