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Xinping Zhang – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
As technology continues to evolve, the process of English translation has become easier. A technology called widget, which is used in modern research, provides an efficient graphical user interface for the interaction between the user and the application. This paper compares the newly proposed wireless widget system with existing models of English…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Software, Information Technology, Information Storage
Yildiz, Mehmet – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021
This is the first academic paper concerned with the description of intertranslational appropriations across non-literary works and to discuss this phenomenon from a novel conceptual perspective by suggesting the term "pseudo-retranslation". "Drmrod", a misspelling of (Jeanne Ellis) Ormrod, served as the benchmark of the…
Descriptors: Turkish, Translation, Accuracy, Error Patterns
Fawzi Eltayeb Yousuf Ahmed; Nawal Mosa Mohammed Abdallah; Sarah Osman Eltom Hamed; Fatima Mohamed Ali Hamed – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
The current study attempts to explore and analyze errors of word choice made in written language by Saudi undergraduates at King Khalid University. It additionally tries to determine the probable sources of errors and provide remedies to them. The study focuses on word choice errors in four areas, viz., literal translation, collocation, subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Castro, Encarnación; Cañadas, María C.; Molina, Marta; Rodríguez-Domingo, Susana – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
This paper describes the difficulties faced by a group of middle school students (13- to 15-year-olds) attempting to translate algebraic statements written in verbal language into symbolic language and vice versa. The data used were drawn from their replies to a written quiz and semi-structured interviews. In the former, students were confronted…
Descriptors: Algebra, Middle School Students, Translation, Symbolic Language
Marice – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study examined a few narrative texts accessed online from kompas.com and translated from Indonesian into French with the help of "Bing Translator," which is a multilingual machine translation cloud service of Microsoft Corporation. This study used a qualitative approach to analyze the translated texts, with the view to identify the…
Descriptors: Indonesian, French, Translation, Grammar
Fatimah Jeharsae; Yusop Boonsuk – rEFLections, 2024
Amid the abundance of studies on translation errors in Thailand, a scarcity remains especially within the multi-linguacultural context of Thailand's Deep South. To address this gap, this study aims to examine Thai-English and English-Thai translation errors encountered by 232 Thai EFL university students studying English in three universities…
Descriptors: Translation, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Thai
Quynh Nhu Pham; Vu Phi Ho Pham – Online Submission, 2024
This study aimed to analyze common syntactic errors found in the argumentative essays of third-year English major students at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Van Lang University, Vietnam. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to obtain data in this study. The quantitative approach involved counting and calculating the frequency,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Error Patterns, Persuasive Discourse, Essays
Xia Chen; Jackie Xiu Yan – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
Although writing and translation are closely related text productions, their interface has rarely been studied in translator training. This study examined student translators' writing and translation products in terms of their quality, errors and self-perceived mental workload. Data were collected from 11 intermediate-level translation students at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Translation, Writing (Composition)
Zachary W. Taylor; Brett McCartt; Tahagod Babekir – Texas Education Review, 2024
Across many language backgrounds, a consistent hurdle to accessing United States higher education is understanding the basic information necessary to apply for admission and financial aid and complete the many enrollment management processes necessary to begin one's college career (apply for housing, receive and submit vaccinations, register for…
Descriptors: Arabic, Native Speakers, Access to Education, Higher Education
Shuangjiao Wu; Mansour Amini; Omer Hassan Ali Mahfoodh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Research on modality shifts in English-to-Chinese courtroom translation remains limited, despite the critical role of modality in shaping legal nuance, and speaker intentionality in judicial settings. This gap is particularly consequential in high-stakes contexts such as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), where…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Court Litigation, Chinese, English
Duklim, Bunyarat – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigates probable causes of translation errors by examining types of Thai-to-English and English-to-Thai translation errors and determining the most common translation errors. The participants of this study were 32 English for Communication students at a Thai University. The data used in this study was obtained from exercises and…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Thai, Error Patterns
Joe Terantino – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This research article examines the accuracy of using Google Translate as a means to offer native language, e-mail communication between teachers and parents of Latino English Language Learners (ELLs). To this end, an elementary teacher's e-mail message was translated by Google Translate and certified translators and then evaluated and compared…
Descriptors: Translation, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans, English Language Learners
Sangmin-Michelle Lee; Nayeon Kang – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
With recent improvements in machine translation (MT) accuracy, MT has gained unprecedented popularity in second language (L2) learning. Despite the significant number of studies on MT use, the effects of using MT on students' retention of learning or secondary school students' use of MT in L2 writing has rarely been researched. The current study…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
Kemp, Lisa S.; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 2021
Characteristics of vocabulary lists as well as study and test translation direction may affect the ease of learning second language (L2) vocabulary. We examined immediate and delayed test performance of first language (L1) English speakers learning a fixed set of L2 vocabulary placed on lists formed by crossing semantic relatedness (unrelated vs.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Semantics
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Polysemes are words that have multiple meanings. They exist in all languages as in Arabic [Arabic characters] and English "base," "plant," "system," "present," "left." A sample of Arabic and English polyseme translation errors was collected from homework-assignments and exams to explore the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, English, Semitic Languages