CALLA FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND HIGH PERFORMANCE ON FCAT

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CALLA FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND HIGH PERFORMANCE
ON FCAT

• COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH
  (CALLA)

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Cognitive Academic Language Learning
Approach (CALLA) Chamot OMalley (1994)

• An approach
• Based on explicit instruction in learning
  strategies
• Based on the premise that active learners are
  better learners

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Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
(CALLA)

• States that academic learning strategies transfer
  to new and different tasks
• Focuses on the development of Cognitive Academic
  Language Proficiency (CALP)

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Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
(CALLA)

• Consists of three main categories of learning
  strategies
• Metacognitive
• Cognitive
• Social /Affective

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Metacognitive Learning Strategies

• Thinking about thinking
• Planning and organizing for a learning task
• Monitoring and evaluating ones own learning

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Metacognitive Learning Strategies

• Planning Selective attention, advanced
  organization, self management
• Monitoring Checking for comprehension
  monitoring production self-monitoring
• Evaluating Reflecting on ones own learning,
  checking on how well the task has been
  accomplished

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Cognitive Learning Strategies

• Manipulating the material to be learned
• Linking prior knowledge with new learning
• Relating learning processes to language demands
  in the domains of listening, speaking, reading
  and writing

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Cognitive Learning Strategies

• Resourcing Using reference materials
• Summarizing Making mental, oral or written
  summary of information gained
• Making Inferences Using context clues to guess
  meaning and predict upcoming information
• Grouping Classifying words, terms, quantities
  and concepts according to their attributes
• Note-taking Writing key words and concepts

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Social/Affective Learning Strategies

• Interacting with others to assist in learning
• Developing collaboration and cooperation skills
• Asking questions for clarification
• Self-Talk -Think positive

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Planning for CALLA Instruction

• The CALLA instructional sequence
• Preparation
• Presentation
• Practice
• Evaluation
• Expand

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Framework for CALLA Instruction

• Teacher
• Preparation
• activates background knowledge
• Presentation
• explains and models
• Practice
• coaches with extensive feedback
• Evaluation
• assesses strategies
• Expansion
• supports transfer

• Student
• attends
• participates
• practices strategies with guidance
• assesses strategies
• uses strategies independently and transfers
  strategies to new tasks

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References

• Barnhardt, S. ,Beard El-Dinary, P., Chamot, A.
  U., Robbins, J. (1999). The Learning Strategies
  Handbook, White Plains, New York Addison Wesley
  Longman
• Chamot, A.U., OMalley, J. M. (1994). The
  CALLA Handbook Implementing the Cognitive
  Academic Language Learning Approach, White
  Plains, New York Addison Wesley Longman.

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