Brian J Birdsell
Hirosaki University
About
Brian J. Birdsell received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK and currently is an Associate Professor in the Center for Liberal Arts Development and Practices at Hirosaki University. His research interests include metaphor, embodied cognition, creativity, and CLIL.Sessions
Technology DeepL and the Dilemma for English Writing Courses more
Sun, Nov 14, 12:05-12:30 Asia/Tokyo
In this presentation, the researcher discusses an exploratory study that investigates how “human-like” DeepL translations are and what ramifications neural machine translations (NMT) will have on English writing courses. The researcher provides some background on NMT, presents results from a study that examined teachers’ evaluations of student essays (some written in English and others in Japanese and subsequently translated into English), and finally considers the dilemma of DeepL for English writing courses and pathways forward.