AN EVALUATION OF THE USE OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRANSLATION TOOLS

Abstract

This article studies the evaluation of the use of online and offline CAT tools by students majoring in the translation and interpretation from English Department, University of Foreign Languages, Hue University. Through the questionnaire survey on students’ understanding and their application of these CAT tools’ main features into the experiments implemented with some texts translated from English to Vietnamese and vice versa (those students are at the same level of language competence and translation skills), this article analyzes students' attitudes and evaluation on using two kinds of CAT tools such as comparing the strengths and weaknesses of each type of CAT tool, its speed and quality of translation support, etc.

This article studies the evaluation of the use of online and offline CAT tools by students majoring in the translation and interpretation from English Department, University of Foreign Languages, Hue University. Through the questionnaire survey on students’ understanding and their application of these CAT tools’ main features into the experiments implemented with some texts translated from English to Vietnamese and vice versa (those students are at the same level of language competence and translation skills), this article analyzes students' attitudes and evaluation on using two kinds of CAT tools such as comparing the strengths and weaknesses of each type of CAT tool, its speed and quality of translation support, etc.