THE CALLA HANDBOOK

What is calla?

Academic Language Skills

ESL

Academic Content

Integration of language

Influence of cognitive theory

cognition and instruction

The calla approach

Developed social communicative skills

Acquired academic language skills

Theorical Framework

Based on a theory that meets at least three criteria

What is learned?

Provides insights that enable us to examine these personal theories

Cognitive theory

Kind of memory

Declarative knowledge

Procedural Knowledge

Implementing the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach

The calla model

Includes three components and instructional objectives

Content topics

Academic Language Skills

Learning strategy instruction

Related Instructional Concepts

Language across the curriculum

Language experience approach

Process writing

Cooperative learning

Cognitive instruction