The need for people to learn other languages is not recent. To this end, a very wide variety of
methods and techniques have been studied and applied in various contexts seeking bilingualism
and multilingualism. Among these, the immersion method stands out for being practical and
active, where the student will spend as much time as possible in contact with the target
language. In this sense, some schools offer the opportunity to acquire a second language through
the content. However, most people in Brazil do not have opportunity to study in bilingual
schools. In fact, studies on the immersion method in this country and the need to provide the
foreign language learner with input are still scarce. This paper aims to demonstrate through a
case study the development of a 10 years old child in an immersion context in the acquisition
of a foreign language (English) through her sister. From the theories demonstrated during the
work and the placement test that seeks to evaluate the subject's English level on an international
scale and observation table, it was exposed the child's development in terms of input
(comprehension), output (oral production) and structures produced by the subject.
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