Yoshiko Mori
Professor, Japanese Language Coordinator
Yoshiko Mori is Professor and Director of the Japanese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology and an advanced certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), an MA in applied linguistics from Ohio University, and a BA and an AA in English studies from Nanzan University.
Dr. Mori’s specialization is in second-language learning and instruction from a psycholinguistics perspective. Her publications include her work on cross-linguistic influences on vocabulary/kanji learning, the roles of metacognitive/metalinguistic awareness in language learning, individual differences, and heritage language learning in book chapters and major journals including Reading Research Quarterly, Language Learning, Modern Language Journal, Applied Psycholinguistics, Foreign Language Annals, Language Teaching, and Japanese Language and Literature and Nihongo Kyooiku [Journal of Japanese Language Teaching].
Her recent publications include “Mori, Y (2022). Yonde kangaeru nihongo 10-no topic chuujookyoo [10 topics on reading and thinking about the Japanese language for intermediate and advanced learners]. Kurosio Publisher.”; “Mori, Y. (2022). Research literacy for Japanese language educators: From the perspective of Japanese language education in the United States. Journal of Japanese Language Teaching, 181, 20-34.”; “Mori, Y., Hasegawa, A., & Mori, J. (2021). The trends and developments of L2 Japanese research in the 2010’s. Language Teaching, 54(1), 90-127.”; and “Mori, Y. (2020). Perceptual differences about kanji instruction: Native versus nonnative, and secondary versus postsecondary instructor of Japanese. Foreign Language Annals, 53(3), 550-575.”
Dr. Mori has been involved in language education for over 30 years in Japan and the United States, teaching various college-level Japanese language and linguistics courses as well as high-school English in Japan. She has served on numerous regional, national, and international boards and committees, holding leadership positions including Vice President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ, 2016-2017), President/Co-president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Teachers of Japanese (MAATJ, 2020-2022), and AATJ Spring Conference Co-director (2015-2016; 2021-2022). She is currently AATJ President and the AP Japanese Language and Culture Chief Reader.