Excerpted from Frankfurt International School’s ESL section:
- BICS/CALP
…Cummins states that while many children develop native speaker fluency (i.e. BICS) within two years of immersion in the target language, it takes between 5-7 years for a child to be working on a level with native…
say this, but this is not new. Cummins has been around for a while. Any teacher who has gone through even the slightest...
Things to remember before we say, “Why don’t they just learn English?”