COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH (CALLA) Principles and Techniques 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) PROCESS (cont’d) • 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 (declarative—what we know; procedural—how we learn) PROCESS ( )& TECHNIQUES PART 3 • CALLA lesson plan: preparation presentation practice evaluation expansion Techniques include: • • • • • • • Advanced organizers Self-monitoring Inferencing Summarizing Grouping Imagery Clarification questioning • Reflection • Organizational planning
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