Machine translation literacy and undergraduate students in applied languages: Report on an exploratory study

Abstract

This article reports on an exploratory study conducted on applied languages undergraduate students’ use of machine translation. Starting from the observation that they make extensive use of free tools available online, our aim was to understand whether they are capable of identifying and correcting machine translation errors, and if so, to what extent.

Keywords

• (neural) machine translation
• MT literacy
• applied languages teaching
• translation teaching
• language acquisition