basic interpersonal communication skills

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Climbing the school ladder: A challenging task for immigrant Latino students: In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.1; 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.

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

See also cognitive academic language proficiency.

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

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

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