An Investigation of Saudi EFL University Students’ Attitudes towards the Use of Google Translate
By Eid Alhaisoni, Maha Alhaysony. 2017
103 citations recorded by the source corpus.
It is argued that the popularity of Google Translate is increasing and users are implementing this giant search engine for different purposes. Hence, this paper reports the results of a study on attitudes toward the use of Google Translate (GT). The participants were 92 Saudi EFL university English major students. A questionnaire was used as an instrument in this study. The results revealed that almost all of the subjects reported using GT. Vocabulary, writing and reading were the three most frequent purposes for which they use GT, whereas translation was the least frequently used. The results also showed that GT is frequently used to get the meaning of unknown words, writing assignments and reading an English textbook. The findings of the study have implications for students, instructors and researchers.
Subfields: Language and Linguistics
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7d328ded32c7948563e4624fe84d3b79dfff366d
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Language and Linguistics
Citations in the corpus
- Chinese students’ perceptions of using Google Translate as a translingual CALL tool in EFL writing (2020, methodology): “It has been reported as an effective CALL tool in EFL writing (Alhaisoni & Alhaysony, 2017; Bahri & Mahadi, 2016; Sha, 2010; Yoon, 2016), and its level of accuracy has been seen as the minimum needed for university admission at many institutions (Groves & Mundt, 2015).”