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CALP Social Studies Academic Language Flashcards

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  1. What makes social studies a particularly CALP-intensive subject area in US schools?

    Answer: It requires understanding abstract concepts like democracy, sovereignty, and economic systems through academic text

    Social studies demands CALP proficiency because it involves dense academic texts about abstract political, economic, and historical concepts.

  2. A student reads: 'The legislature enacted legislation to regulate commerce.' What CALP challenge does this sentence present?

    Answer: It uses multiple academic vocabulary items specific to civics and government

    Terms like 'legislature,' 'enacted,' 'legislation,' and 'regulate commerce' are CALP-level civics vocabulary that require academic language knowledge.

  3. How does CALP proficiency support understanding of primary source documents in US history classes?

    Answer: CALP proficiency enables students to parse archaic and formal academic language in historical documents

    Historical primary sources often use archaic formal registers and complex syntax that require strong CALP proficiency to comprehend and analyze.

  4. A social studies teacher asks students to 'compare and contrast the economic systems of two nations.' Which CALP skill is primarily required?

    Answer: Academic language for analysis using compare/contrast discourse structure

    Compare-contrast tasks require CALP proficiency in both academic language production and the organizational structures used in analytical academic writing.

  5. What is meant by 'academic discourse community' in the context of social studies CALP?

    Answer: The shared academic language norms, text types, and reasoning practices within the social studies discipline

    Each academic discipline including social studies has a discourse community with specific language norms, genres, and reasoning practices that define CALP in that field.

  6. A CALP assessment asks students to 'evaluate the credibility of a historical source.' What does this require?

    Answer: Applying critical academic language to assess authorship, purpose, context, and bias

    Source credibility evaluation is a CALP-level critical thinking task requiring academic language skills to assess multiple dimensions of historical evidence.