Kaori Tanaka

Kaori Tanaka is a Lecturer in Japanese Language at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. She has taught Japanese as a second language to learners from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds in Taiwan, Japan, Poland, and Canada.

Her research and teaching focus on:

• Contrastive study between Mandarin Chinese and Japanese
• Cross-cultural communication strategies
• Innovative teaching pedagogy for language acquisition

Kaori also worked as a Japanese language education consultant in Canada and has conducted numerous teaching seminars.