Dr. Elana Summers

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Co-Leiterin, IMK Institut für Mehrsprachige Kommunikation

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Mensch-­Maschine-Kommunikation

Lehrtätigkeit

• Master Language and Communication
• Bachleor Mehrsprachige Kommunikation

Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung

Prompt Engineering for Multilingual Communication

Netzwerk

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3565-6870

Projekte

• Sprachen lernen im Zeitalter von künstlicher Intelligenz – Apprendre les langues à l'ère de l'IA / Teammitglied / laufend
• Digital Literacy im Hochschulkontext / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
• PhD in Applied Linguistics – Swiss AL Tools / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Cotelli Kureth, S. et al. (2025) 'Comment développer la littéracie digitale des enseignant-es et des apprenant-es? : conclusions du projet 'Digital Literacy in University Contexts'', Babylonia, (1), pp. 56–59. doi: 10.55393/babylonia.v1i.510.
• Cotelli Kureth, S. and Summers, E. (2025) 'Policy on the use of machine translation (MT) : a good model for wider policies on generative AI (GenAI)?', Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 8(1), pp. 30–48. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34688.
• Cotelli Kureth, S. and Summers, E. (2023) 'Tackling the elephant in the language classroom : introducing machine translation literacy in a Swiss language centre', Language Learning in Higher Education, 13(1), pp. 213–230. doi: 10.1515/cercles-2023-2015.
• Summers, E., Kappus, M. and Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2023) 'Collaborative possibilities of CAT tools in the revision process', Revista Tradumàtica, (21), pp. 300–308. doi: 10.5565/rev/tradumatica.314.

Bücher, peer-reviewed

Summers, E. (2026) Digital literacy : neural machine translation in the undergraduate L2 translation classroom. Doctoral dissertation. The Open Unversity. doi: 10.21954/ou.ro.00109984.

Weitere Publikationen

Cotelli Kureth, S. et al. (2022) 'Tackling the elephant in the room : introducing MT literacy in a Swiss language centre', in XVII CercleS International Conference 'The Future of Language Education in an Increasingly Digital World: Embracing Change', Porto, Portugal, 15-17 September 2022.

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Cotelli Kureth, S. and Summers, E. (2025) 'Using screen recordings to assess how students use GenAI tools in the foreign language writing process : insights for language teachers', in Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, 13-14 November 2025.
• Cotelli Kureth, S. et al. (2024) 'Empowering language teachers : reflections on a training design for AI literacy', in Innovation in Language Learning, Florence, Italy, 7-8 November 2024.
• Cotelli Kureth, S. et al. (2024) 'Policy on the use of machine translation : a good model for wider policies on generative AI?', in AI in Education / (Dis)embodied interActIons, Paris, France, 24-25 October 2024.
• Lehr, C. and Summers, E. (2023) 'Post-editing raw MT output : definition and (affective) considerations for language teaching', in International Conference and Teacher Training Conference: The Wider Implications of Machine Translation, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 15-16 June 2023.
• Kappus, M. and Summers, E. (2021) 'Teaching quality assessment and revision with CAT tools : a case study', in The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, p. 32.
• Hunziker Heeb, A. and Summers, E. (2021) 'Effects of co-teaching translation into the L2 on learner empowerment', in The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, p. 11.

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