1. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
Anna Uhl Chamot
Jill Robbins
Second Language Learning Consultants
NOTES PAGES FOR JILL, ANNA & AILEEN
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2. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
PURPOSE OF CALLA
Focus on learner.
Improve academic language proficiency.
Motivate with content topics.
Teach learning strategies.
ANNA
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3. THE COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH (CALLA)
The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
THE COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH (CALLA)
ANNA
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4. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
AUTHENTIC CONTENT
Aligned to curriculum standards.
Interesting school and cultural topics.
Linked to students’ prior experiential and cultural knowledge.
Taught through hands-on/inquiry-based/cooperative learning tasks.
ANNA
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5. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
Language development through content across all curriculum areas.
Vocabulary and discourse of content subjects and cultural topics.
Linked to students’ prior linguistic knowledge.
Development of language awareness.
ANNA
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LEARNING STRATEGIES
Thoughts and actions that assist learning tasks.
Ways to understand, remember, and recall information.
Ways to practice skills efficiently.
JILL
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7. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
CALLA Sites
Lowell, MA
McAllen, TX
Mesa, AZ
New York, NY
Ogden, UT
Philadelphia, PA
Washington, DC
ANNA
Alief, TX
Allentown, PA
Arlington, VA
Bethel, AK
Boston, MA
Chula Vista, CA
Dearborn, MI
El Paso, TX
Fargo, ND
Federal Way, WA
Houston, TX
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8. Analyzing Textbook Language
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Analyzing Textbook Language
Using the sample from a text for your level, work with a group to identify some of the content difficulties for ELL students
AILEEN
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9. CALLA INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
CALLA INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
Five Recursive Phases
ANNA
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10. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
PREPARATION
EXPANSION
CALLA’S FIVE PHASES
PRESENTATION
SELF-EVALUATION
ANNA
PRACTICE
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11. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
PREPARATION
Identify objectives.
Elicit students’ prior knowledge.
Develop vocabulary.
Provide motivation.
JILL
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12. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
PRESENTATION
Present new information in varied ways.
Model processes explicitly..
Explain learning strategies.
Discuss connections to students’ prior knowledge.
ANNA
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13. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
PRACTICE
Use hands-on/inquiry-based activities.
Provide different cooperative learning structures.
Use authentic content tasks.
Ask students to use learning strategies.
JILL
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SELF-EVALUATION
Students reflect on their own learning.
Students evaluate themselves.
Students assess their own strategy use.
Anna
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EXPANSION
Students apply information to own lives.
Students make connections between language and content.
Students relate information to first language knowledge.
Parents contribute to learning.
Jill
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16. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
Guide for planning a CALLA Instructional Sequence
SHOW THIS FOR GROUP LESSON DEVELOPMENT OHP
JILL OR AILEEN
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Listen & Respond
Listen to the research findings and choose one point to respond to.
On a note paper, write a practical example or application of one of the research findings.
Place the note under the research finding.
GIVE INSTRUCTIONS HERE FOR THE LISTENING ACTIVITY
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18. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
Research Findings
The learning process is mentally active and strategic.
Learning involves higher level thinking, not just memory.
Social context and interaction are critical.
Students learn content by relating it to their prior knowledge.
Students learn processes through integrative practice individually and with peers.
Learning strategies can be taught and learned.
ANNA
STOP AFTER THIS SLIDE TO DEBREIF ON THE LISTENING ACTIVITY
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ANNA
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20. WHY TEACH LEARNING STRATEGIES?
The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
WHY TEACH LEARNING STRATEGIES?
Show students how to be better learners.
Build students’ self-efficacy.
Increase student motivation for learning
Help students become reflective and critical thinkers.
JILL
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21. TIPS ON TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES
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TIPS ON TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES
Build on students’ current learning strategies.
Demonstrate how to use the learning strategy by modeling.
Give the strategy a name.
Provide ample practice opportunities.
ANNA
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22. Metacognitive Strategies
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Metacognitive Strategies
Planning
Understand the task
Organize materials
Find resources
JILL
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23. Metacognitive Strategies
The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
Metacognitive Strategies
Monitoring
While working on a task:
Check your progress on the task.
Check your comprehension as you use the language. Do you understand? If not, what is the problem?
Check your production as you use the language. Are you making sense? If not, what is the problem?
ANNA
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24. Social Learning Strategies
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Social Learning Strategies
Cooperation: work with others to:
complete tasks
build confidence
give and receive feedback
Jill
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25. Metacognitive Strategies
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Metacognitive Strategies
Evaluation: after completing a task:
Assess how well you have accomplished the learning task.
Assess how well you have used learning strategies.
Decide how effective the strategies were.
Identify changes you will make the next time you have a similar task to do.
ANNA
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26. Metacognitive Strategies
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Metacognitive Strategies
Self-Management: Manage Your Own Learning
Determine how you learn best.
Arrange conditions that help you learn.
Seek opportunities for practice.
Focus your attention on the task.
Jill
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27. The CALLA Model: Strategies for ELL Student Success
CALLA Instruction Is...
Learner-centered
Reflective
Supportive
Focused
Enthusiastic
Anna:
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