A language teacher firstly, asks students to introduce themselves to each other in the class. Then she asks them to introduce their friend to each other. This activity will help them to increase

BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills), a term coined by Jim Cummins, refers to everyday conversational language skills used in social interactions. Introducing oneself and others is a basic interpersonal task that helps develop BICS rather than CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency), which involves academic language.