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Takako Aikawa is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Languages. She teaches Japanese at both introductory and advanced levels and leads the Japanese language curriculum. Since joining Global Languages in 2013, she has worked with Microsoft Research on machine translation and natural language processing, and has taught at various Japanese universities in Japan and the United States. Aikawa has contributed chapters to ICT×日本語教育 [Information and Communication Technology x Japanese Language Education] (2019) and Digital Resources for Learning Japanese (2018). She shares her work at conferences focused on Japanese language pedagogy. Her research interests include the incorporation of technology in language education, the use of corpus data in language learning, and natural language processing. Currently, she is working on projects that explore the application of virtual reality to create immersive learning environments and artificial intelligence to detect and correct common learner errors in written text.