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A teacher organizes the following activity every day. Divides the class into groups of five and gives some day-to-day functions/themes for conversation in the groups and later she picks up one from each group and asks the group to converse as a whole class activity. What is she attempting to promote?

A teacher organizes the following activity every day. Divides the class into groups of five and gives some day-to-day functions/themes for conversation in the groups and later she picks up one from each group and asks the group to converse as a whole class activity. What is she attempting to promote? Correct Answer <span style="">Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS)</span>

There are two major aspects of language proficiency that must be acquired by second language learners. Jim Cummins has identified these as Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS), or conversational proficiency, and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP), or academic proficiency. 

Key PointsBICS stands for  Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills are language skills needed in social situations and describe the development of conversational fluency in the second language.

  • The language necessary for day-to-day living, including conversations with friends, and informal interactions. It is Context embedded. Context embedded means that the conversation is often face-to-face, and offers many cues to the listener such as facial expressions, gestures, and concrete objects of reference. 
  • It is a cognitively undemanding language i.e. it is easy to understand, deals with everyday language and occurrences, and uses a simple language structure.
  • So, when the language teacher divides the class into groups and asks them to speak the topic that is given by the teacher. She is trying to promote BICS.
  • It is because it is an informal interaction and the learners will use everyday language and occurrences and uses simple language structure.

Thus, it is concluded that in the above situation the teacher is trying to promote Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS).

Additional Information

  • Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP):- The language is necessary to understand and discuss content in the classroom. It is context-reduced. Context reduced is the language of the classroom in which there are fewer non-verbal cues and the language is more abstract. 
  • Discourse competency:- It refers to the use of language by arranging a sentence in a proper sequence.

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