The 5 phases:

All the five phases of CALLA are very important as a teacher’s view. The most important and interesting thing about the five phases is, it focus on the students’ learning or students’ center. A classroom is filled with learning if its students’ center instead of teacher’s center.

The five phases of CALLA: PPPEE (Preparation, Presentation, Practice, Evaluation, and Expansion)

First of all, every teachers need to prepare before presenting the lesson. We all need to prepare before we do something if we want it to go well. Preparation is the important part in CALLA. In preparation phase as phase one, it tells us that we need to know our students’ background. Teachers need to find out the students’ prior knowledge.

Presentation: Finding out the students’ prior knowledge will help the teacher well planned the lesson and do the presentation well. Teacher needs to know what to present to the students or else they repeat the same lesson that would make the students bored because they already know it. This may leads to misbehavior to start appear.

ESL teacher needs to present the lesson in different modes to make the students understand it well. Students need to practice what has been presented to them in order for them to experience and making sense of it. In doing so, they can do self-evaluation, the fourth phase. Questions may arise such as, what do I learn? How do I learn it? And the expansion phase may come straight in when they do the self-evaluation phase because they may also think about how is it relevant and important to their lives.

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." -- Nikos Kazantzakis