Japanese English Learner

The children in that neighbourhood were her primary source of language input. | Uguisu also attended public kindergarten of two hours every day, and later elementary school, but with no tutoring in English syntax. Most of her neighbourhood friends were in her same class at school. | The subject in this study is Uguisu, "nightingale" in Japanese. Her family came to the United States for a period of two years while her father was a visiting scholar at Harvard, and they took residence in North Cambridge, a working-class neighbourhood. | This paper summarizes some of the major data gathered in a longitudinal, naturalistic study of a Japanese girl learning English as a second language.