culture Archives - The FLTMAG https://fltmag.com/tag/culture/ IALLT's free language technology magazine Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:01:20 +0000 en hourly 1 Assessing Arabic Proverb Translation Accuracy: A Comparative Study of ChatGPT and Google Translate with Pedagogical Applications https://fltmag.com/ai-translation-accuracy/ https://fltmag.com/ai-translation-accuracy/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:39:13 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=8112 By Gisele El Khoury, St. Lawrence University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CTLS7669 Introduction Due to their cultural specificity, metaphorical language, contextual reliance, regional differences, and idiomatic usage, several Arabic proverbs are extremely challenging to translate. Proverb translation is regarded as difficult since it

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]]> https://fltmag.com/ai-translation-accuracy/feed/ 1 Talking About History Through Stories: Using Databases of the Victims of Mass Repressions in a Russian Language Classroom https://fltmag.com/history-stories/ https://fltmag.com/history-stories/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:49:07 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=7824 By Irina Zaykovskaya, University of Minnesota  DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/VDRI5711 On a quiet morning in June 2021 I walked into the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, Russia. Of course, I knew about the GULAG (the system of labor camps that functioned across

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]]> https://fltmag.com/history-stories/feed/ 1 Cultural Tasks for Language Learning and Teaching: The ENACT App https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/ https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:41:39 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=6713 By Müge Satar, Paul Seedhouse, Ahmed Kharrufa, Colin Bone Dodds, Sara Ganassin, Alison Whelan, Newcastle University, UK DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GGEZ7014 Introduction Many people are motivated to learn foreign languages by their interest in foreign cultures and ways of life, and Newcastle

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]]> https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/feed/ 2 Google Arts and Culture in World Language Classrooms https://fltmag.com/google-arts-and-culture-in-world-language-classrooms/ https://fltmag.com/google-arts-and-culture-in-world-language-classrooms/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:56:55 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=5406 By Becky Cottrell, Ph.D Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Metropolitan State University of Denver DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ZBMG7779 Have you ever wanted to take your class on a field trip to the Prado museum in Spain, or the Louvre in Paris? How about

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