BICS and CALP refer to the productive and receptive language skills that ELLs possess.

BICS and CALP refer to the productive and receptive language skills that ELLs possess. Underlying this is the Common Underlying Proficiency Theory (CUP), developed by Jim Cummins. Discuss the similarities and differences between the development of L1 (native language) and L2 (target language).

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There are wide differences between people developing the native language and the target language which are represented as L1 and L2 respectively. In L1 acquisitioning, the child is acquiring knowledge about the world they live in alongside developing the language (Shim, 2016). Among the second language learners, people bring knowledge from their world to the task of learning new approaches of the world they live in. The first language learner is better positioned because they get substantial time of naturalistic exposure to their language from…