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Type of Speech: 
Definition: 

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

Additional Information: 

BICS is conversational fluency acquired by novice language learners and is less cognitively demanding than CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency).

For further explanation:
See EverythingESL for a discussion of the differences between BICS and CALP.