Übersetzungsmaschinen im Englischunterricht des Zyklus 3

Abstract

Machine translation offers new starting points for the development of foreign language teaching. As part of a project on machine translation in English lower secondary classrooms, teachers were surveyed, and exemplary lesson plans were developed and evaluated. The questionnaire results revealed that the use of machine translation in the classroom causes some concern. Preliminary project findings indicate that machine translation can contribute to vocabulary learning provided that its use is addressed and practiced in the classroom. Based on the project results, suggestions for the use of translation machines at lower secondary level are discussed.