Yasuko Fujita

Adjunct Lecturer

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Biography

Yasuko Fujita has over a decade of experience teaching Japanese at all levels at American universities, including Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith College and Stony Brook University. She holds an MA in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Studies, and her research interests include language learner motivation, communicative language teaching, intercultural communication, Japanese linguistics, and language assessment. She has presented her work at conferences such as the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL), and her co-authored paper on language learning motivation is set to appear in Translanguaging and Translation in Multilingual Contexts (Volume 11, Issue 2). Beyond her teaching and research, she has served as an educational coordinator for Youth For Understanding, an organization facilitating student exchange program, and as a member of the organizing committee for the Japan Center Essay Competition at Stony Brook University.