Corpus-Assisted Translation Teaching: An Overview

Liu, Kanglong

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-8995-9_2

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“…Translation technology has played an increasingly essential role in this era of technology and digitalisation. It is foreseeable that people will rely more on MT or other CAT tools including corpora will become more prevalent in translation teaching [50,51]. Thus, maximising the values of MT by providing proper MT training to translation students can certainly contribute to translation academia, the translation industry, and the whole of society at large.…”

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Sustainability and Influence of Machine Translation: Perceptions and Attitudes of Translation Instructors and Learners in Hong Kong

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In this era of globalisation, translation technologies have become more popular in daily communication, the education sector, and the translation industry. It is observed that there is a prevalent use of machine translation (MT) among translation learners. The proper use versus abuse of MT can be a critical issue regarding its role in and impact on translation teaching. This exploratory study aims at investigating learners’ and instructors’ knowledge of MT, experience in MT use, perceived MT quality, ethics of MT use, and the perceived relationship between MT and translation training, in order to figure out the usefulness of MT in translation competence acquisition and the necessity of MT training. To this end, we conducted surveys and semi-structured interviews and found that the influence of MT in translation competence acquisition is determined by the properties of MT and learners’ quality. MT is particularly helpful in gaining lexical knowledge and knowledge to ensure translation efficiency, but not in bicultural knowledge. However, such usefulness builds on learners’ language proficiency, analytic ability, and learning motivation. In light of the findings, issues including the sustainability of MT from ethical and linguistic perspectives, and the potential and proper use of MT to inform translator training, are discussed.

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Sustainability and Influence of Machine Translation: Perceptions and Attitudes of Translation Instructors and Learners in Hong Kong

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“…Despite the limitations mentioned above, we can see that LCR in Hong Kong has made significant progress in uncovering the nature of learners' English language output in the Hong Kong context. Entering yet another decade brings with it some exciting initiatives that connect LCR with other disciplines such as translation and interpreting studies in Hong Kong (e.g., Liu, 2015). This indicates that LCR research, with its methodological and scientific robustness, can cross-fertilise and inform a wide range of disciplines and pedagogical research (Liu, 2020).…”

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“…Entering yet another decade brings with it some exciting initiatives that connect LCR with other disciplines such as translation and interpreting studies in Hong Kong (e.g., Liu, 2015). This indicates that LCR research, with its methodological and scientific robustness, can cross-fertilise and inform a wide range of disciplines and pedagogical research (Liu, 2020). Furthermore, Hong…”

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Learner corpus research in Hong Kong: past, present and future

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Cheung²,

Zhao³

2022

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As a field of research closely connected with second language acquisition, teaching and learning, learner corpus research (lcr) has garnered interest among language teachers and researchers in Hong Kong, where English is one of the two official languages (alongside Chinese) and also one of the chief mediums of instruction in education. In view of this unique situation, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of lcr within different teaching contexts in Hong Kong and identifies some major research trends and issues. Through this survey of the development of lcr in the region, we find that great advances have been made over the past three decades. Specifically, the object of analysis has shifted from cherry-picked, isolated textual features to operationalised parameters such as metadiscourse markers, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity to study learners’ language output. Despite the progress that has been achieved so far, there remain a number of important questions for lcr in the context of Hong Kong. In particular, some researchers tend to broadly apply the term ‘learner corpus’ even to the language output of expert-level L2 speakers. Yet, whether this group of speakers can be treated as L2 learners, and their language output as a learner corpus, remains contested. In addition, existing learner corpora are also limited in their scope by genre, with the majority being compiled from letters and essay writings. This paper concludes with suggestions on how these limitations can be addressed in future research.

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“…In addition, in corpus linguistics, the terms direct and indirect exploitation of corpora are not generally used. The realm of corpus linguistics centers on three major applications of corpora—corpus‐based, corpus‐ driven, and corpus‐assisted (Liu, 2020), only the last of which suits this volume. Another drawback can be seen in the introduction, where different types of corpora are explained.…”

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