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MACHINE TRANSLATION FOR STANDARD AND MOBILE LMS-ENHANCING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
MACHINE TRANSLATION FOR STANDARD AND MOBILE LMS-ENHANCING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Jacob HODGES, Maria-Magdalena Popescu
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: machine language translation; mobile devices; languages; virtual learning environments.

Summary/Abstract: The integration of an international or intercultural dimension within all the activities of an educational process – be it teaching or research - enables both students and faculty develop their cultural capabilities as well as provide access to a better selection of courses. Being provided in a multicultural environment, education triggers a competitive component for those interested in keeping up with the best institutions to offer knowledge all over the world. What is the basic ingredient for all this? The ability to communicate internationally, to be able to drop the language barrier and frontier. In terms of a Virtual Learning Environment that means Machine Translation tools employed in the complex use of standard or mobile LMS, to cut through all nations and help us study irrespective of place, time or …Mother-Tongue. The present paper looks at how MLT systems can answer the question of meeting the needs of those who want to study in their own language but still take courses abroad, or teach basic guidelines in how to contexts, irrespective of the user’s first language .Can this spare us from learning foreign languages? Will foreign language centers become obsolete and fade away after all?

  • Issue Year: 7/2011
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 108-115
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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