To Investigate an Instant Translation for Assisting Students' Understandings of Lecture Slides

Abstract

this study aims to apply instant translators for assisting English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students to understand English lecture slides in a normal classroom. Moreover, this study investigated how instant translator helped students understand in English lecture and students' perceptions toward the use of an instant translator. There are main findings of this study; most students who used instant translator perceived that it was useful for the chapter lecture. They used an instant translator to convert English slides to Thai instant transcripts for getting more understanding and summarizing chapter reports. The students of the instant translator group significantly outperformed the traditional group.