WHAT IS CALLA?
Was developed
To meet the academic needs of students
Instructional Innovations
Language Across the Curriculum
the Language Experience Approach
Whole Language
Process Writing
Cooperative Learning
Cognitive Instruction
Three instructional objectives
Topics from the major content subjects.
The development of academic language skills.
Explicit instructions in learning strategies for content and language acquisition.
Theoretical Framework
It is grounded in research
It explains what is learned as well as how it is learned
It provides guidance for instruction
Kind of memory
Long-term memory
Short-term memory
Working memory
Targeted at
Language minority students at the advanced beginning and intermediate levels of English language proficiency.
For
Students learning English as a second language in American Schoold
Academic Language Skills
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Content topics
Science
Mathematics
Social studies
Language arts