CALL is dedicated to ensuring that educators have access to the latest research so that they are adequately prepared to teach students who are at-risk because of deficits in their academic language. CALL focuses on the teaching and learning of three at-risk populations, students who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD), students with specific learning disabilities (SLD), and students from low socio-economic environments.

If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn. If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people. - Chinese Proverb

What is the greatest common factor among the students you teach? Each is an academic language learner! (Flash 10mb)

Teachers must reexamine the types of instructional experiences students receive in order to succeed in school. Scholars have stated that performance deficits among at-risk students are largely a function of language deficiency (Project Follow Through, 1964).

What must teachers do? Apply strategies that simultaneously make the content more comprehensible and promote English development!

CLD Readings

• Future Directions (pdf)
• Sheltered instruction (pdf)
• Student Enrollment (pdf)
• Students With Special Needs (pdf)
• Three-tier Reading Model (pdf)
• To Teach Me (pdf)