A Study of Communication between a Teacher and a Child Who is a Non-Native Japanese Speaker

Abstract

Verbal communications between children from foreign countries and Japanese teachers is difficult in general. However, these children can often communicate sufficiently without understanding others’ languages. This case study analyzes how a three-year-old foreign child who could not understand Japanese was still able to communicate with a Japanese teacher. It also describes how the teacher helped him and how the child’s behavior was positively changed