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Climbing the school ladder: A challenging task for immigrant Latino students
Teachers play a critical role when helping immigrant children adjust to a new school life. Because immigrants' backgrounds and experiences are so diverse, it is important for teachers no to make assumptions and to get to know individual children.
By Magda Corredor.

Social language first used by English (or foreign) language learners.

See also cognitive academic language proficiency.

Additional information

BICS is conversational fluency acquired by novice language learners and is less cognitively demanding than CALP.

Examples and resources

See EverythingESL for a discussion of the differences between BICS and CALP.