My Presentations (Since 2018)

My Updated CV (as of April 2023)

  • 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)