Rate My Professor Akiko Meguro

Meguro integrates innovative practices into her teaching, including regular language exchanges with native Japanese speakers via Skype and social networking platforms like mixi. She has created multimedia resources for Japanese learning, such as the welovejapanese.com website. Her pedagogical developments have earned recognition through Dickinson College Non-Travel Awards, including funding in 2004-2005 for creating listening comprehension exercises using TV video clips and support for workshops on developing effective online Japanese courses. Notable publications include her 2001 article "ビデオクリップを活用したオンライン教材開発の試み" in The Journal of Japanese Language Education Methods. Collaborating with Todd Bryant, she co-authored "Finding Language Partners in Unexpected Places: Skype and Social Networking for USA-Japan Telecollaboration" in Telecollaboration 2.0 (2010) and "AI Chatbots for Beginning Language Learners" (2025). Meguro has contributed to initiatives like a ChatGPT-based chatbot for first-year Japanese classes and the "Konnichiwa, Chatbot!" project for fast-track language learning. As an academic technology fellow, she advances technology-enhanced language instruction at Dickinson College.