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cognitive academic language proficiency

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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.

Academic language students experience in school. CALP develops over a five to seven year period in the language acquisition of English (or foreign) language learners.

See also basic interpersonal communication skills.

Additional information

CALP is more cognitivelly challenging than BICS in language acquisition, and is understood as a requirement for school success.

Examples and resources

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