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Behind The Scenes:. The CALLA Model in Curriculum Design. Senabil Al-Hussaini Institute of Applied Technology March, 2010. CALLA. C ognitive A cademic L anguage L earning A pproach.

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  1. Behind The Scenes: The CALLA Model in Curriculum Design Senabil Al-Hussaini Institute of Applied Technology March, 2010

  2. CALLA CognitiveAcademicLanguage Learning Approach “Instructional Model Designed to Meet The Academic Needs of English Language Learners” (Chamot, 2009, P.1)

  3. Who Are English Language Learners (ELLs)? (Freeman & Freeman, 2002; Olsen & Jaramillo, 1999)

  4. Overview of CALLA • Effective instructional model for ELLs from beginning to advanced levels. • Based on research on learning strategies and academic language and content instruction. • Informed by cognitive and sociocultural learning theories. • Composed of three integrated components.

  5. Academic Language Development • Academic Content CALLA Model

  6. Academic Content How to Select Content • Select core topics and skills for your grade level. • Study professional Content Standards and TESOL Standards to see how the selected topics are sequenced over several grades. • Analyze the school’s adopted textbooks for different subjects. • Identify major components of content: Concepts, Processes, and necessary Prior knowledge. • Help students connect content to their own cultural backgrounds.

  7. How to Teach Content, a glimpse: • Identify and share content and lesson objectives. • Link lesson topic to students’ prior knowledge. • Provide hands-on and minds-on experiences with content. • Address different learning styles by presenting content visually, aurally, and kinesthetically. • Present and encourage students to use the technical vocabulary appropriate to the content subject.

  8. Why Teach Academic Language? • Academic Language is a key to success in core subjects (for e.g. math, science, social studies). • Not learned outside of the classroom setting. • Core subject teachers may assume that all their students already know appropriate academic language when in fact they have acquired mainly social language skills. • Provides students with practice in using English as a medium of thought. • English learners need assistance using learning strategies with academic language, just as they do with content knowledge and skills.

  9. How to Select Academic Language • Observe and record language used in content classrooms. • Analyze language used in content textbooks. • Select authentic language tasks that target language skills and functions to Read, Write, Understand,TalkandThink About Content.

  10. Learning Strategies All thoughts and actions that students use to complete a task successfully. Why Are Learning Strategies Important? • Self Knowledge • Task Knowledge • World Knowledge • Strategy Knowledge • Planning. • Monitoring. • Identifying problems • Evaluating

  11. Academic Language Development • Academic Content CALLA Model

  12. PREPARATION EXPANSION CALLA’s Five Phases SELF EVALUATION PRESENTATION PRACTICE

  13. (Chamot, 2007, P.326)

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