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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