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Harada, Tetsuo – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
This study analyzed the production of voice onset time (VOT) for /p, t, k/ in Japanese and English by English-speaking children (n = 15) in a Japanese immersion program. The immersion children produced Japanese voiceless stops with significantly longer VOT values than the monolingual Japanese children and the immersion teachers, but they produced…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Immersion Programs, Monolingualism, Bilingual Teachers
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Perera, Natsuko Shibata – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A study investigated how young learners of English as a second language become both linguistically creative and capable of socializing in English through the use of prefabricated language (PL) (memorized chunks of sentences). Observations of four Japanese preschool children in two-way immersion programs suggested that PL acts as a scaffold for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Imitation, Immersion Programs