Pedagogical strategies for the effective use of automatic translation for reading comprehension in English for academic purposes
Reading in additional languages, especially English, is a requirement for Brazilian graduate students in masters and PhD programs. In English for Academic Purposes courses, reading is taught through linguistic aspects and reading strategies. This paper presents a study based on the use of automatic...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repositorio: | Letras (Santa Maria. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/71439 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/71439 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Inglês para fins acadêmicos Estratégia de leitura Tradutor automático Ferramenta pedagógica Compreensão leitora English for academic purposes Reading strategy Automatic translator Pedagogical tool Reading comprehension |
| Sumario: | Reading in additional languages, especially English, is a requirement for Brazilian graduate students in masters and PhD programs. In English for Academic Purposes courses, reading is taught through linguistic aspects and reading strategies. This paper presents a study based on the use of automatic translation (AT), more specifically Google Translate (GT) as a pedagogical tool in the context of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), focused on teaching strategies that aim to solve the difficulties of reading English in this context. The results demonstrate that the pedagogical use of the automatic translator through an explicit instruction improves reading comprehension in English for academic purposes, as well as promotes greater awareness among students about the AT functioning, which implies a more autonomous, critical and effective tool use. |
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