Machine Translation and Foreign Language Learning
Machine Translation and Foreign Language Learning

Author: Kizito Tekwa

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-02

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9819986028

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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.

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 3110867567

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In this paper,(1) I will restrict the term ""linguistic theory"" to systems of hypotheses concerning the general features of human language put forth in an attempt to account for a certain range of linguistic phenomena. I will not be concerned with systems of terminology or methods of investigation (analytic procedures). The central fact to which any significant linguistic theory must address itself is this: a mature speaker can produce a new sentence of his language on the appropriate occasion, and other speakers can understand it immediately, though it is equally new to them. Most of our li.

Eight Decades of General Linguistics
Eight Decades of General Linguistics

Author: Ferenc Kiefer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9004218130

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'Eight Decades of General Linguistics' offers the lectures of outstanding scholars including Otto Jesperson, Louis Hjelmslec, André Martinet, Uriel Weinreich, Noam Chomsky, and others held during the 18 conferences organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists.