Faculty
Noriko Hanabusa
Professional Specialist
BA, Keio University, 1988; MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994.
Noriko Hanabusa teaches all levels of Japanese language. Her areas of speciality is Japanese Pedagogy, and her current research interest include Content Based Instruction and Collaborative Learning. She is the author of Nakama 1a and 1b Student Activity Manual (Second Edition), which Notre Dame’s Japanese Program uses in the 1st year Japanese class. Currently she is working on the Nakama 2 Student Activity Manual (Second Edition). Her recent publication includes ‘Toward “Contents” in the Beginning Language Class’ Japanese as a Foreign Language Education: Multiple Perspectives by Kuroshio Publisher (May 2008). She was a recipient of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2009, and the Kaneb Teaching Awards in 1999 and 2005, University of Notre Dame. During the summers she teaches at Hokkaido International Foundation, Princeton in Ishikawa, and Middlebury Japanese School.
