Donna H. Tatsuki

Donna Hurst Tatsuki was born in Edmonton Canada and has lived in Japan since 1986.

Currently she is the director of the Graduate School for English Language Education and Research at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Her doctoral seminar investigates the interactions between governmental language education policies and classroom practices. Selected areas of her research include the teaching of pragmatics, best practices in language teaching materials, the representations of gender/ethnicity in government approved language textbooks, and descriptions of ELF driven multi-party talk-in-interaction in MUN simulations.