Call for Papers

Translation Technology in Education – Facilitator or Risk?

Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies

University of Nottingham

Following the success and the highly stimulating contributions of our 2018 event, the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies of the University of Nottingham is delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the conference ‘Translation Technology in Education – facilitator or risk?’

Call for Papers

Google Translate & Modern Languages Education

The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham is seeking papers for a 1-day event that address the usefulness and the use of GT in the context of education. It aims to comprise a range of topics, possibly from, but not limited to the following areas:

• The benefits and drawbacks of GT for second language acquisition
• GT’s role in independent language learning
• GT in the classroom
• GT and assessed coursework assignments
• GT and cheating in assessed work
• GT as research facilitator and related issues (e.g. rigor, ethics)
• Google Pixel Buds and the future for human interpreters
• GT and careers options for modern languages students
• GT’s translation quality/reliability

Submission deadline: 31 January 2018

Date of the event: 29 June 2018

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