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What is CALP?
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CALP (cognitive academic language proficiency) is the ability
of an individual to use language effectively as a medium of instruction for
academic learning. In other words, it is the use of language for studying
academic subjects in school. The term was coined by Jim Cummings, Professor
at the University of Toronto.
Dr Ramanathan comments on the significance of CALP, in the
context of English teachers:
I would like to give you an example of a poem on benzene that was
introduced in the English curriculum of a school in Nagaland. This was part of a
workshop I conducted in Nagaland in January last year as a consultant for the
Nagaland Board of Secondary Education. After two years, the teachers protested
that the poem be withdrawn from the syllabus. They insisted that they did not
understand science and were not equipped to teach in this genre. The problem
here essentially is that teachers are not provided with the tools to learn what
they eventually are going to teach.
More information
about CALP
( courtesy:
http://www.thehindu.com/ )
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