Overview
- Discusses a novel form of MT and how students enrolled in Chinese colleges can benefit to learn English
- Investigates how MT provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language
- Provides an interesting insight about IM user profiles, clients, and usages
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Translation Studies (NFTS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book investigates how machine translation (MT) provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language. It is informed by a mixed methods methodological approach that analyzes quantitative and qualitative data of questionnaires and real-time instant messages (IM). The book is unique because it contains tables, figures, and screenshots of actual real-time IM exchanges. It is innovative in discussing IM translation, a novel form of MT, and demonstrates how the technology offers English foreign language learners, in this case, Chinese college students, communication opportunities while increasing their willingness to communicate. The study provides an interesting insight into IM user profiles, clients, and usages. Smartphone screenshots are the locale of the study whose findings have far-reaching implications for students, language and translation instructors, and curriculum designers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kizito Tekwa is Canadian. He is a graduate of the School of Translation and Interpretation (STI), University of Ottawa, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Translation Studies in 2018. He has taught at the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (University of Ottawa), Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation (Shanghai International Studies University), and School of Interpretation and Translation Studies (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies). Currently, he teaches at the School of Foreign Languages (Shenzhen Technology University). He teaches Translation Technology, English Language, and Technical Writing.
His research areas include computer-assisted translation (CAT), machine translation, post-editing, localization, and low-resource languages. He has several SSCI publications in top-level journals including Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (LANS – TTS), Perspectives, Babel, and Education and Information Technologies. He has also published two textbooks─Writing: A Textbook to Improve Essay Writing and Avoid Chinglish and A Technical Writing Coursebook for College Students─ and several book chapters in various Springer book series.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Machine Translation and Foreign Language Learning
Authors: Kizito Tekwa
Series Title: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8602-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-8601-9Published: 03 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-8604-0Due: 03 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-8602-6Published: 02 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2197-8689
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8697
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Applied Linguistics, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Development