TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS since 2013
Upcoming talks:
May 2025 Plenary Speaker, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
January 2025 Invited Speaker, Workshop for the Japanese language teachers) (virtual)
December 2024, Invited Speaker, Kanda University of International Studies, “生成AIが与える日本語教育へのインパクト:AI時代に向けての新しい日本語教育” (The Impact of Generative AI on Japanese Language Education: New Approaches for the AI Era), Co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Japanese Linguistics and the International Student Division at Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan.
Talks in the past:
November 2024, “Explore the Art of ‘Prompt Writing’ in Language Teaching,” AATJ (American Association of Teachers of Japanese) Annual Fall Conference in conjunction with ACTFL, Philadelphia, PA.
October 2024, Invited Speaker, 生成AIが与える日本語教育へのインパクト: AI時代に向けての新しい日本語教育, hosted by 南米スペイン語圏日本語教育学会 (South American Association for Japanese Language Education in Spanish-Speaking Countries) and sponsored by the Japan Foundation, Santiago, Chile (virtual).
October 2024 Invited Speaker, “Navigating the AI Tsunami: AI’s impact on Japanese language learning,” hosted by Portland State University’s Center for Japanese Studies, Portland, OR. (https://www.pdx.edu/syndication/events/navigating-ai-tsunami-ais-impact-japanese-language-learning)
September 2024 Invited Presenter, “Unlearn, Relearn, and Transform: Fluid Language Pedagogy in the Age of AI,” at the CODE MEETS CULTURE, AI AND THE FUTURE OF SECOND LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE PEDAGOGY, Villanova University, (https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/spanish/events/presenters.html)
September 2024 (Stanford) Invited Presenter, in collaboration with Prof. Per Urlaub and Dr. Eva Dessein from MIT, “What is prompt writing and why is it important?”, the Stanford Language Center Retreat Workshop, Stanford, CA.
August 2024 “Re-envisioning Language Education in the Age of AI: The Emergence of Prompt Writing,” International Conference of Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Madison, WI.
August 2024 Interactive Workshop, In collaboration with Prof. Motoko Tabuse (Middlebury College, Eastern Michigan State University) and Prof. Yoshiko Mori (Georgetown University), AI時代における日本語教師要請の課題について考える (“Exploring the Challenges of Training Japanese Language Teachers in the AI Era”), International Conference of Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Madison, WI.
June 2024 Invited Speaker, AIを活用した外国語学習：新たな視点の育成 (“Foreign Language Learning Utilizing AI: Cultivating New Perspectives”), Reitaku University, Chiba, Japan (Virtual).
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)(https://jltane.conference.wesleyan.edu/keynote/) (Virtual).
May 2024 Keynote Speaker, “May 2024 Keynote Speaker, “AI-Enhanced Language Learning: Cultivating New Perspectives”, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. (https://jaltcall.org/jaltcall-2024/)
May 2024 Invited Speaker, “AI and Language Education,” Princeton, NY.
April 2024 Presenter, “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.
March 2024 Presenter, “How to communicate with AI: the art of prompt writing,” the Global Languages Spring Colloquium, Global Languages, MIT.
March 2024 Invited Speaker, “AI and Language Education: Challenges and Opportunities,” the Workshop at Vanderbilt Center for Languages, Vanderbilt, TN.
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 “A Mini-lecture on the Japanese Language and Culture”, the seminar for the Innovation Discovery Japan participants, MIT (in-person).
December 2022 “A Story Book Generator for Language Education”, in collaboration with Steven Wilson, the Digital Humanities Research Showcase, MIT (virtual).
September 2022 “The use of MT (DeepL and Google Translate) for Japanese language education”, Machine Translation and L2 Pedagogy Virtual Roundtable Discussion, MIT (virtual).
September 2022 “Automatic Read Aloud Assessment Tool: A Preliminary Report”, in collaboration with Feina Niu, the 2022 Language Assessment Research Conference, University of Chicago (in-person).
August 2022 “A dilemma in returning to fully face-to-face instruction”, the 25th Japanese Language Education Symposium Europe, August 25-27, 2022, Leiden University, the Netherland (virtual).
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 speaker, 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)
October 2017 “JaJan: Language Learning in a Shared Virtual Space”, with Louisa Rosenheck, 2017 NERALLT Annual Conference, Wesleyan University.
August 2017 “IT Development and the Forced Future of Language Teaching: Toward the De-standardization of Language Education and the Professionalization of Language Teachers”, Panel presentation, 15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) and Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe (AJE), Lisbon, Portugal.
August 2017 “Differences in Students’ Error Correction between Native and Non-native Japanese Teachers”, 2017 CAJLE Annual Conference, Calgary, Canada.
August 2017 AIチュータの実現に向け：誤用例文コーパスデータの構築と誤用文修正知識の習得 [Toward the Development of AI Tutor: Knowledge Acquisition of Learners’ Error Correction], 7th International Conference on CASTEL/J, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
July 2017 “Impact of AR/VR on Language Acquisition”, Invited speaker, FORUM 8 Workshop, MIT.
June 2017 “Impact of Technology on Language Learning”, Invited speaker, Hakodate International Foundation, Hakodate, Japan
May 2017 “Revitalization of Grammar in the Digital Age: Grammar Pedagogy”, The 31st Annual Conference of JLTANE, Harvard University.
December 2016 日本語AI Tutorの開発に向けて [Toward the Development of Japanese AI Tutor], Invited speaker, School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
November 2016 “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tutor: A Preliminary Assessment Report”, ACTFL- AATJ 2016 Annual Fall Conference, Boston, MA.
August 2016 “Variance in Error Correction among Language Teachers”, 2016 CAJLE Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada.
July 2016 “Language Learning in a Shared Virtual Space: JaJan, an Application of the Next Generation”, The 20th Japanese Language Education Symposium in Europe (AJE) and the 5th Conference on Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching (AIOLG), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
May 2016 “Automatic Grammar Acquisition from Error Corpus Data and Variance in Teachers’ Error Correction”, The 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Language Teachers Association of the Northeastern Region, Wellesley College.
November 2015 “An Analysis of Japanese Tweets”, ACTFL-AATJ Fall Conference, San Diego, CA.
October 2015 “Development of AI Tutor for AP-targeted Japanese Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC s)”, Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) Conference, University of Michigan.
October 2015 “AI (artificial intelligence) Teacher”, Brown Bag series, Global Studies and Languages, MIT.
September 2015 “Impact of Technology on Language Education”, Invited speaker, Language Technology Workshop at Berlitz Corporation, Benesse Corporation, Princeton, NJ.
August 2015 “Interactive Japanese Language Learning Applications with Rich Linguistics Resources and NLP (Natural Language Processing) Technologies”, 2015 CAJLE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
March 2015 “AP-level Japanese MOOC: Shall We Dance?”, AATJ Annual Spring Conference, Chicago, IL.
February 2015 “Challenges for English into Japanese Machine Translation (MT): Can We Embrace MT for Language Learning?”, Invited speaker, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.
November 2014 “Is Machine Translation Your Friend or Foe? Challenges for English Japanese Translators”, The 55th Annual Conference of American Translators, Chicago, IL.
July 2014 “A Preliminary Report of the Use of Piazza for a Language Class”, The Second European Conference on Language Learning, Brighton, United Kingdom.
May 2014 “A Preliminary Analysis of Japanese Tweets”, The 21st Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton University.
March 2014 “Beyond Textbooks: Language Learning via Virtual Study-Abroad”, The 6th International Symposium on Digital Technologies in Foreign Language Learning, Kyoto, Japan.
October 2013 “Language Learning in a Shared Virtual Space”, The Asian Conference on Society, Education and Technology, Osaka, Japan.
October 2013 “Language Technology and its Role in Language Teaching and Learning”, Invited speaker, The 24th Conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese, Eastern Michigan University.