Google Translation Center: The World's Largest Translation Memory - GigaOM - 0 views
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Google is preparing to launch Google Translation Center
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This is an interesting move, and it has broad implications for the translation industry, which up until now has been fragmented and somewhat behind the times, from a technology standpoint
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Google has been investing significant resources in a multi-year effort to develop its statistical machine translation technology.
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Cooperative Learning - 14 views
10 Commandments for Motivating Language Learners « Oxford University Press - ... - 14 views
Foreign Language Teaching Wiki - Culture - 1 views
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The main exposure students had to the culture of the target language was through controlled interaction with native speakers in the classroom.
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Language & culture are more naturally integrated in this approach. Culture instruction is connected to grammar instruction. Its main goal is to teach students how to use the target language when communicating in a cultural context
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the following are other common approaches to teaching culture: (from Omaggio) The Frankenstein Approach: A taco from here, a flamenco dancer from there, a gaucho from here, a bullfight from there. The 4-F Approach: Folk dances, festivals, fairs and food. The Tour Guide Approach: The identification of monuments, rivers and cities. The "By-the-Way" Approach: Sporadic lectures or bits of behavior selected indiscriminately to emphasize sharp differences.
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Strategies Collection - 12 views
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