Takako Aikawa

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My Presentations (Since 2018)

My updated CV (March, 2024)

  • May 2024, Keynote Speaker, “AI-Enhanced Language Learning: Cultivating New Perspectives,” Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan (in-person).
  • May 2024, Keynote Speaker, “言語教育におけるAIの役割：新しい視点へのシフト (The Role of AI in Language Education: Call for Perspective-Shift),” Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England Conference (JLTANE) (virtual).
  • May 2024, Invited Speaker, “AI and Language Education,” Princeton, NY (in-person).
  • April 2024, “言語教育における AI ツナミ：教育革新としてのプロンプトライティング技法 (The AI Tsunami in Language Teaching: Prompt Writing as a Pedagogical Innovation),” the 30th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person).
  • March 2024, Invited Speaker, “AI and Language Education: Challenges and Opportunities,” Vanderbilt Center for Languages, Vanderbilt, TN (in-person).
  • March 2024, Speaker, “How to communicate with AI: the art of prompt writing,” the Global Languages Spring Colloquium, Global Languages, MIT.
  • January 2024, Panelist for the session, “Supporting Learners through Technology and Course Iteration: A Panel Discussion with MIT Faculty and Instructors”, Festival of Learning by MIT’s Open Learning (https://openlearning.mit.edu/mit-faculty/festival-learning).
  • November 2023, Panelist, “AI & Language Education”, along with Michael Campbell (General Manager, Education Division, Intel Corporation), Sheri Bryant (Advisor and Consultant, Silicon Valley Nexus) and Mika Hama (Director of Strategy and Innovation, Second Language Testing Inc.), The 2023 Annual US-Japan Council Conference, Washington D.C. (in-person).
  • October 2023, Plenary Speaker, “AI-Augmented Language Pedagogy: Perspective Shift is All You Need,” the VI Consortium Workshop for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL), Princeton University, NJ (in-person).
  • August 2023, “A Use Case Scenario of Machine Translation for Language Instruction,” the Annual European Association for Japanese Studies 2023, Ghent, Belgium (virtual).
  • August 2023, “An Automatic “Read-Aloud” Assessment Tool: A Preliminary Report”, together with Feina Niu, Computer-assisted Teaching Language/Japanese (CASTEL/J) 2023, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (in-person).
  • July 2023, “言語教育におけるChatGPTの使用法と実例” (Methods and Practical Use Case Scenarios of Using ChatGPT in Language Education), Workshop, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan (virtual).
  • May 2023 “Navigating the Future of Language Education: The Role of Human Teachers and AI in Language Learning”, Invited speaker for 2023 Spring EALAC (East  Asian Languages and Cultures) Guest Talk for Language Programs, Columbia University (virtual).
  • April 2023 “AI Tutor for Language Learners?”, a guest lecturer for the Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Teaching Course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, , Interaction, and Translation”, Harvard University (virtual).
  • March 2023 “Use of machine translation in language education and its practical examples”, the 2023 Annual Spring Conference of American Association of Teachers of Japanese, Boston (in-person).
  • March 2023, “Approaches to Hybrid Courses: Development of the hybrid Japanese classes with synchronous Zoom instruction”, Global Languages Spring Pedagogy Colloquium, MIT (virtual).
  • December 2022 S. Wilson, and T. Aikawa, “A Story Book Generator for Language Education,” the Digital Humanities Research Showcase, MIT (virtual).
  • December 2022  “A Mini-lecture on the Japanese Language and Culture,” for the participants of the Innovation Discovery Japan (IDJ), MIT (in-person).
  • September 30, 2022  “The use of MT (DeepL and Google Translate) for Japanese language education,” Machine Translation and L2 Pedagogy Virtual Roundtable Discussion (virtual). https://languages.mit.edu/events/machine-translation-and-l2-pedagogy..
  • September 15-17, 2022 T. Aikawa and F. Niu, “Automatic Read Aloud Assessment Tool: A Preliminary Report,” at 2022 Language Assessment Research Conference, , University of Chicago (in-person). https://larc2022.event.uchicago.edu/program-schedule/
  • August 25-27, 2022 “A dilemma in returning to fully face-to-face instruction,” 25th Japanese Language Education Symposium Europe, , Leiden University, the Netherland  (virtual) https://www.eaje.eu/en/symposium/72
  • April 2022 “Storytelling and Storyboarding: Shifting Language Pedagogy toward Something Invisible,” the 2022 Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum. (virtual)
  • March 2022 “Storytelling with Multi-media Technologies,” the 3rd Asian Conference on Language 2022, Tokyo, Japan. (virtual)
  • November 2021 “Blended Learning as the New Normal for Teaching Japanese,” the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2021 Annual Convention. (virtual)
  • October 2021 “New Technological Skills for the New Normal,” invited speaker, Mid-Atlantic Association of Teachers of Japanese  (MAATJ) Professional Development Workshop Part I (Lecture) at the Fall Conference of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA), Williamsburg, VA. (virtual)
  • July 2021 “Synergy of Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning Environments: A new hybrid-model with the power of un- and re-,” invited speaker, American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Professional Development Series. (virtual)
  • June 2021 “Let’s Unlearn and Relearn: A Pathway to the New Normal Language Pedagogy,” the 34th Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England (JLTANE), Smith College. (virtual)
  • June 2021 “Basic Skills and Knowledge about Language Technology for Teaching Japanese,” invited speaker, Professional Development Workshop for the teachers of Japanese, Middlebury Language Schools, Middlebury College. (virtual)
  • June 2021 “Virtual Reality as a New Modality for Language Learning,” Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) annual conference 2021. (virtual)
  • May 2021 “Hybrid Pedagogy Guided by Learning Modalities,” the 2021 Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton University. (virtual)
  • April 2021 “New Language Learning Experiences-Blended Learning, NLP, and AR/VR,” invited workshop, Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese. (virtual)
  • March 2021 学習者のニーズに応えるプロフェッショナル日本語コースの構築を目指して [How to better prepare students for their future careers: Toward the development of Japanese for professional communication], in collaboration with Wakana Maekawa and Masami Ikeda, AATJ Annual Spring Conference. (virtual)
  • February 2021 “The Roles of Language Teachers and Technology in the Age of the New Normal,” invited speaker, Illinois Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS) Speaker Series, Illinois University. (virtual)
  • December 2020 リモート時代の日本語教授法作りに向けて:テクノロジーと教師の役割 [Toward the development of Japanese language pedagogy in the age of remote instruction: the role of technology and language teachers], 第11回 日本語実用言語学国際会議 (ICPLJ11) [11th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese], National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo. (virtual)
  • November 2020 リモート・インストラクション環境下における言語教育の課題 [Challenges for Language Education in the Age of Remote Instruction], ４月からの大学等遠隔授業に関する取組状況共有サイバーシンポジウム [Cyber Symposium to Share the Situations of Remote Instruction since April], National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo. (virtual)
  • October 2020 “Designing a Japanese Language Course for Professional Communication (The CLTL Language Teaching Innovation Grant Project Report),” with Wakana Maekawa and Masami Ikeda, Global Languages Colloquium, MIT. (virtual)
  • June 2020 “The Role of Language Teacher in the Age of Remote Instruction,” invited speaker,Middlebury Language Schools Alumni Event, Middlebury College. (virtual)
  • June 2020 “Use of Multimedia Applications for Teaching Japanese,” invited speaker, Professional Development Workshop for the teachers of Japanese, Middlebury Language Schools, Middlebury College. (virtual)
  • March 2020 “Virtual Reality for Language Learning,” the Asian Conference on Language (ACL), Tokyo, Japan. (virtual)
  • August 2019 “Language Learning and Global Competence: MIT’s Strategies,” invited speaker, 2nd International Symposium on Language Learning and Global Competence, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • August 2019 AI チュータの開発に向け：人工知能（AI）の日本語教育への導入とその可能性 [Toward the Development of AI Tutor: Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Japanese Language Education], 8th International Conference on Computer Assisted Systems for Teaching & Learning Japanese (CASTEL/J), Pusan, Korea.
  • August 2019 “Impact of AI on Language Education: Changing Teachers’ Role(s) at the Age of AI,” invited lecturer, Middlebury Summer Japanese Language Program, Middlebury College.
  • August 2019 “Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality for Language Learning,” invited speaker, Middlebury Faculty Development Event, Middlebury College.
  • July 2019 “Meaningful Language Learning by Virtual & Augmented Reality Technologies: Vision for Future Language Learning,” invited speaker, Hokkaido International Foundation, Hakodate, Japan.
  • April 2019 “Innovative Language Instruction Using VR,” invited speaker, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College.
  • March 2019 “Changing Teachers’ Role(s) in Language Education: Myths Associated with Machine Translation,” AATJ Annual Spring Conference, Denver, CO.
  • October 2018 “Meaningful Language Learning by Virtual Technologies: Vision for Future Language Learning,” New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology (NERALLT) 2018 Annual Conference, Boston University.
  • August 2018 “Are We Ready to be Friends with Machine Translation?,” 2018 Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE) Annual Conference, London, ON, Canada.
  • June 2018 “Impact of New Technologies on Language Education: AR, VR, and AI,” invited speaker, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
  • June 2018 “Recent Trend of the Japanese Language Education in the U.S., and MOOCs,” invited speaker, Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • May 2018 “Language Learning Based on Augmented Reality: JaJan,” poster presentation, The 24th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton University.
  • March 2018 AI チュータの開発に向け: 機械学習の導入とその結果 [Toward the Development of AI Tutor: Incorporation of Machine Learning and Its Results], AATJ Annual Spring Conference, Washington, DC.
  • March 2018 “Impact of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality on Language Learning,” keynote speech, The Second Annual WLL Pedagogy Symposium “Language & Literature in and Out of the Classroom” Boston University. Also given as “VR (仮想現実)/AR (拡張現実)技術による将来の言語教育へのインパクト” [Impact of VR/AR on our Future Language Education], 2018 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Venice, Italy (August 2018)