Digital Literacy Skills in University Contexts (DigLit)
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Triantafyllia Liana Konstantinidou
- Co-project leader : Prof. Dr. Alice Delorme Benites, Prof. Dr. Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Dr. Caroline Lehr, Prof. Dr. Cerstin Mahlow
- Project team : Laura Franciello, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hoefele, Prof. Dr. Otto Kruse, Aleksandra Opacic, Dr. Christian Rapp, Dr. Maren Runte, Romina Schaub-Torsello, Elana Summers, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik
- Project budget : CHF 2'060'000
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Federal government (Projektgebundene Beiträge / P-8 Digital Skills)
- Project partner : Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich PHZH, Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Université de Neuchâtel
- Contact person : Triantafyllia Liana Konstantinidou
Description
Writing in most contexts today is done with digital, computer-assisted support. Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) such as intelligent tutoring (IT), automated writing evaluation (AWE) and machine translation (MT) present new opportunities, perspectives, and risks for tertiary education. The challenge in university contexts is to determine how the advantages of AI-related technology can be leveraged in language teaching and academic writing while minimizing potential issues such as ineffective communication, miscommunication, and misuse (e.g. plagiarism). The main goal of the project is to show how they can be brought systematically into classrooms and coaching as surrogates for how to exploit AI in education, empowering lecturers and students by demonstrating how smart machines can help students to improve their writing. In order to meet this goal, we will evaluate the applicability of various types of digital multilingual writing support in Swiss universities and heighten current and potential users’ awareness of the opportunities and risks they entail.
Further information
Publications
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Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli, Sara; Steele, Elizabeth,
2022.
In:
Swissuniversities Netzwerktreffen: Innovation in der Lehre, Olten, Schweiz, 28. Oktober 2022.
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Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,
2022.
Exploring the role of MT in science news flows.
In:
10th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST 2022), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,
2022.
Machine translation literacy für den DaF/DaZ-Unterricht : Chancen und Herausforderungen.
In:
Ledafis Jahrestagung, Basel, 6.-7. Mai 2022.
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth; Franciello, Laura,
2022.
I looked it up in DeepL : online dictionaries and online machine translation.
In:
Tralogy3 : Tralogy: Human translation and natural language processing: Forging a new consensus?, Paris, France, 7-8 April 2022.
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,
2022.
Neural machine translation and language teaching : possible implications for the CEFR.
Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée.
2021(114), pp. 47-66.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24716
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Runte, Maren; Mahlow, Cerstin; Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Hoefele, Joachim; Opacic, Aleksandra,
2022.
Nutzung von INCEpTION zur Entwicklung und Verwendung von Auszeichnungsrichtlinien für Textprozeduren.
In:
Workshop "Softwaregestützte Kategorienentwicklung in Praxis und Forschung", online, 21.-22. Februar 2022.
Available from: https://fortext.github.io/katkit/events/ws1/
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Steele, Elizabeth; Cotelli, Sara; Lehr, Caroline,
2022.
Let’s talk about MT : raising awareness in Swiss universities.
In:
#TQ2022 : Traduction & Qualité, « Comment enseigner (avec) la traduction automatique ? », online, 28 January 2022.
Available from: https://webtv.univ-lille.fr/video/11745/-journee-d%E2%80%99etudes-%C2%ABtraduction-qualite-%C2%BB-maureen-ehrensberger-dow-alice-delorme-benites
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,
2021.
In:
Zoghlami, Naouel; Brudermann, Cédric; Sarré, Cedric; Grosbois, Muriel; Bradley, Linda; Thouësny, Sylvie, eds.,
CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021.
EUROCALL 2021 : CALL & Professionalisation, Paris (online), 25-27 August 2021.
Research-publishing.net.
pp. 80-87.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1313
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Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; O'Brien, Sharon,
2021.
Leveraging MT Literacy (panel).
In:
International conference on translation, interpreting and cognition : book of abstracts.
3rd ICTIC, Forlì, Italy, 2 - 5 November 2021.
Università di Bologna.
pp. 15.
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Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,
2021.
Machine translation in the language classroom : Swiss data.
In:
The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.
The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
pp. 35.
Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,
2021.
Machine translation literacy and language teaching .
In:
EUROCALL 2021 : CALL & Professionalisation, Paris (online), 25-27 August 2021.
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Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,
2021.
NMT Literacy for future language professionals : changing perceptions.
In:
International conference on translation, interpreting and cognition : book of abstracts.
3rd ICTIC, Forlì, Italy, 2 - 5 November 2021.
Università di Bologna.
pp. 16.