He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center and his MA in TESOL from New York University. His research interests are second language acquisition and Japanese as a heritage language. Dr. Nagano is currently working on the acquisition of causativity in English and Japanese and the acquisition of English collocations by non-native English speakers. He also published several articles in demographics of heritage language speakers through his recent involvement in the Henry-Luce Heritage Pathways Project at LaGuardia Community College. Dr. Nagano taught Japanese at various institutions, including Queens College of CUNY and he is a certified ACTFL OPI Tester in Japanese. See here for a list of his publications and grants.