This monograph is a compilation of seventeen cases from the first ten bilingual family case studies conducted by the author and originally printed in the "Bilingual Japan Newsletter" from January 1993 through October 1994 and a summary defining factors felt to contribute to and detract from bilingual acquisition.
Cases included, among others, five returnees from four families, an English only-speaking Japanese home and three bicultural families with one Japanese parent and one minority language speaker. Issues such as attrition, first language precociousness, sibling language, parental bilinguality, language switching and mixing, trilinguality and other issues were presented.
Families share their lessons with the readers about what works and what doesn't.
