Which one of the following activities comes under CALP?

CALP refers to formal academic learning. This includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing about subject area content material. This level of language learning is essential for students to succeed in school. Students need time and support to become proficient in academic areas. 

Key Points CALP describes the use of language in decontextualized academic situations (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency). 

• Academic language acquisition is not just the understanding of content area vocabulary.
• It includes skills such as comparing, classifying, synthesizing, evaluating, and inferring.
• Academic language tasks are context-based.
• Writing book review activity comes under CALP because it requires higher-order thinking skills (e.g. analysis, synthesis, evaluation). 

Thus, it is clear that CALP will include activities like Writing book reviews.

Hint

• BICS describes the social, conversational language used for oral communication. Also described as a social language, this type of communication offers many cues to the listener and is context-embedded language. 
  • This will include activities like Making reservations, Answering calls, Making an appointment for a saloon, etc.