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Machine Translation: The Question of Appropriate Use -
The Students of the Hashemite University as a Case Study

Mai Malkawi

Abstract

Along with the technological developments taking place in the last decades, many aspects of our life has changed, thus we became more dependent on ways through which we can perform our tasks quickly and somehow efficiently making us, as a result, more technology – oriented. Translation and translating is not an exception indeed. Through the few last decades and up to this moment, we noticed many online sites and services that help users perform their tasks. Even though those sites are very popular, well known and available since long time, some people are unable to use them properly to obtain the result desired. This paper aims at investigating the way students use such sites in order to reveal if they do I the right way that gives them the best result.

Keywords: Machine translation (MT), google translate, technical translation course, The Hashemite University

Introduction

Machine translation is a new trend in translation industry that encompasses the use of technology in order to help translators do their job as quickly as possible. “MT is simply a translation performed either purely automatically by a computer or with human assistance which involves the preparation of the ST, i.e. pre-editing and/or product editing, i.e. post – editing” (A.B. As-safi 2011:26). For the most part, the use of these sites or online tools must be accompanied by human assistance which is needed to refine the product of such sites and tools.

This human supervision is truly vital especially if the two languages used are of remote origins such as Arabic and English, which are the languages investigated in this study. This study tries to examine students’ awareness of this fact which is highly significant in order to get the accurate product of the translation process.

What is Machine Translation?

Machine translation is a relatively new trend in translation that appeared in the late twentieth century. There are several definitions for this new type of translation. For example, W. John Hutchins (1995) said that: “The term 'machine translation' (MT) refers to computerized systems responsible for the production of translations with or without human assistance.” Another definition is presented by Grace Hui-chin Lin (2009) who said: “Machine translation (MT) is a modern method of translation through computer assistance, which is a sub-field of computational linguistics.”.

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Mai Malkawi
Master of English Language
Full-time Lecturer, Language Center
The Hashemite University, Zarqa-Jordan
malkawi.mai@gmail.com
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8730-3068
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