COMMON ONLINE TECHNICAL TOOLS FOR TRANSLATION: STUDENTS’ CHOICES, PERCEPTIONS, AND TRANSLATION STRATEGIES USED
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https://doi.org/10.46827/ejmts.v4i1.533Keywords:
translation, online translation tools, technology for translation, students’ perceptions, translation strategies, travel brochuresAbstract
This research study presented the results of online technical tools used in translation studies. Most of these technical tools were freely selected by university students of an English education programme while performing their translating tasks. The study results showed that Google Translate, ChatGPT, and Google Lens were the most frequently used online technical tools the students had selected for their translation. The advantages and disadvantages of these tools were also analysed. The study revealed the participants’ perceptions of the translation tools they used, hoping that the results would shed light on improving these technical translation tools to tool designers when mistakes made by machine translation were pointed out. The study recommended to translators that machine translation needs to be done along with human intervention while performing translation tasks. Translation strategies used by the target students were also investigated. Recommendations for future research studies on the topic were given in this article.References
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