A Review Study of the Application of Machine Translation in Education from 2011 to 2020

Abstract

The progress of translation technologies has presented new opportunities and challenges to translation education, and the application of machine translation in education has received growing attention among researchers. This paper reviewed a total of 40 studies (19 empirical studies and 21 position papers) published in five SSCI-indexed and three CSSCIindexed journals during 2011 to 2020. The SSCI-indexed journals include Perspectives, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Babel, Across Languages and Cultures, The Journal of Specialized Translation. And the three CSSCI-indexed journals are Chinese Translators Journal, Shanghai Journal of Translators and Technology Enhanced Foreign Language Education. At first, this paper explored the yearly publication trend and the research themes of the journals. Then, it summarized the methodologies of empirical studies and found that a majority of the studies employed the mixed or qualitative methods with data analysis based on qualitative summaries and descriptive quantitative analysis. Major findings and pedagogical implications were provided at the end.