Publications

Publication details [#48786]

Flege, James Emil, Susan G. Guion, Katsura Aoyama, Tsuneo Yamada and Reiko Akahane-Yamada. 2008. The first years in an L2-speaking environment: A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 46 (1) : 61–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | child | language proficiency | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper explores and compares Japanese children's and adults' acquisition of American English during their first immersion years in the United States. Although adults may initially have an advantage over children, the latter may improve faster through immersion in an second language-speaking setting.