59 ¦ Q&A: Student resistance, online translators and teaching spelling
The Motivated Classroom
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How to Use Google Translate for Language Learning
We need to accept that this is going to be part of the language learning journey for the vast majority of students who are in schools. So we eed to work with it and not against it. We'll do a few exercises wit google translate to try and show them how flawed it can be. And then i show them word reference, cause i know they're going to use something so i encourage them from day one to use word reference. Now, in terms of good we'll translate and then put them into full paragraphs. It might go from english to french, french to spanish, german back to English. And thy'll just see how awful there's intricacies by stage four
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