Machine translation and the L2 classroom: Pedagogical solutions for making peace with Google translate

• Published in: Foreign language annals Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 779 - 795
• Main Authors: Ducar, Cynthia, Schocket, Deborah Houk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria Wiley-Blackwell 01.12.2018; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Subjects: Algorithms; Brain; Brain research; Cheating; Classrooms; Computational Linguistics; Curricula; Departments; Educational Change; Educational technology; Ethics; French as a second language; Intercultural Communication; Literature Reviews; Machine translation; Mathematics; Networks; Neural networks; Pedagogy; Psycholinguistics; Search Engines; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Second language teachers; Second Languages; Spanish language; Students; Study abroad; Symbolic Learning; Teaching Methods; Translation; Undergraduate Students; Web Browsers; World Views; Norway; United States > US; Ohio

This article addresses a key pedagogical issue of our time: the widespread yet generally unwelcome presence of machine translation (MT) in the language classroom. Studies have repeatedly shown that L2 students consult the most widely used translation tool, Google Translate (GT), in spite of the fact...