Online Machine Translation for L2 Writing Across Languages and Proficiency Levels.
Using machine translation (MT) tools for language learning has become a common practice among language students in recent years. Studies have investigated how students use MT, how students and teachers perceive its benefits and drawbacks and how helpful it is for language learning. These studies ind...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 135 - 158 |
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Castledown Publishers
2022
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