Awakening Students’ Perceptions Through the Use of Three Cognitive Strategies for Reading

AbstractThis article describes the implementation of the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) with students from four different settings in Boyacá. The implementation of the model was carried  out during some reading sessions in order to make students active participants of their le...

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Main Authors: Carvajal, Carolina, Vera, Diana Carolina, Díaz, Diana Mayerly, Murcia, Luz Angélica
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2013
Online Access:https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/enletawa_journal/article/view/1943
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Summary:AbstractThis article describes the implementation of the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) with students from four different settings in Boyacá. The implementation of the model was carried  out during some reading sessions in order to make students active participants of their learning  and to be conscious of the strategies use, suchas, activating prior knowledge, making predictions about the text and checking guesses and predictions. Those strategies are used to facilitate students’ understanding of a text through the implementation of theinstructional model. Key words: CALLA, reading, learning strategies, instructional model.