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This article presents the results of a longitudinal study of digital writing strategies and vocabulary development among Swedish upper secondary school pupils of Spanish as a foreign language. During one schoolyear, the pupils (N=31) wrote four essays in Spanish, a pre-test and a post-test. 15 pupils used a printed dictionary as translation tool, 16 used Google Translate (GT). Vocabulary development was measured as the change in lexical diversity from pre-test to post-test, using Guiraud’s index. The results show that the use of GT leads to higher degrees of lexical diversity as long as it is used, but that the effect vanishes when the tool is no longer used. The results point to the need...

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Temas: español como lengua extranjera

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Google Translate (GT) has become a popular machine translation (MT) tool among language learners, received by instructors with excitement over its pedagogical potential and concerns about its possible misuse in the classroom, particularly when this misuse goes undetected. This study investigated the suitability of natural language processing (NLP) software for the automated detection of MT use in second language (L2) writing, examining a dataset composed of written samples generated by GT and direct L2 writing produced by intermediate-level postsecondary learners of Spanish. NLP-powered analyses found significant lexical and sentential-level differences, as well as estimated proficiency-level differences across text types. Automated judgments based on lexical diversity and amount of coordination yielded detection accuracy rates of 73....

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This article presents a study on Google Translate search strategies among 16 Swedish senior high school students (age 17-18) engaging in writing tasks during their sixth year studying Spanish L3. The students wrote on laptops with Internet access and were allowed to use Google Translate to search for Spanish words. Analyses of approximately 43 hours of screen recordings covering the writing of 57 essays reveal a complex weave of Google Translate search strategies performed in Swedish, English, and Spanish. The strategies combine lexical and...

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