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. Caroline Lehr, Prof. Dr. Cerstin Mahlow
Project team : Dr. Curtis Gautschi, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hoefele, Dr. Andrea Hunziker Heeb, Prof. Dr. Otto Kruse, Dr. Christian Rapp, Dr. Maren Runte, Romina Schaub-Torsello, Elana Summers, Mattia Turra, 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), automated text production (ATP) 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 literacy skills. In order to meet this goal, we will evaluate the applicability of various types of digital multilingual reading and writing support in Swiss universities and heighten current and potential users’ awareness of the opportunities and risks they entail.

Further information

Weitere Infos zum Projekt digital literacy "Digitale Kompetenz im Hochschulkontext"

Publications

Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Haller, Mara; Noghrechi, Hasti; Steele, Elizabeth,

2023.

“I looked it up in DeepL” : machine translation and digital tools in the language classroom.

Studie e Richerche: Human Translation and Natural Language Processing Towards a New Consensus?.

35, pp. 81-96.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-762-3/006
Delorme Benites, Alice,

2023.

Wenn die Künstliche Intelligenz die Schulbank drückt : Einblicke in die Funktionsweise, Potenziale und Gefahren von KI im Fremdsprachenunterricht.

In:

Internationale Delegiertenkonferenz IDK «Mensch und Maschine beim Deutschlehren und -lernen: ein Wechselverhältnis», Winterthur, Schweiz, 14.-17. August 2023.
Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

2023.

La traduction automatique en classe de langue : comment nos étudiant-es l’utilisent et comment pouvons-nous la prendre en compte?.

In:

Xème colloque international de l’ADCUEFE – CAMPUS FLE (Association des Directeurs des Centres Universitaires d’Études Françaises pour Étrangers), Lyon, France, 21-23 juin 2023.
Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

2023.

La traduction automatique neuronale au service de l’apprentissage des langues?.

In:

Xème colloque international de l’ADCUEFE – CAMPUS FLE (Association des Directeurs des Centres Universitaires d’Études Françaises pour Étrangers), Lyon, France, 21-23 juin 2023.
Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

2023.

Is AI to language learning what the calculator is to maths?.

In:

International Conference and Teacher Training Conference: The Wider Implications of Machine Translation, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 15-16 June 2023.
Lehr, Caroline; Summers, Elana,

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.
Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

2023.

Machine translation literacy for academic writing.

In:

12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.
Lehr, Caroline; Schaub-Torsello, Romina,

2023.

Machine translation literacy in university contexts : survey data analysis.

In:

12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.
Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Runte, Maren; Mahlow, Cerstin; Stahlhut, Laura; Gautschi, Curtis,

2023.

Towards implementing a module for automated writing feedback.

In:

12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.
Delorme Benites, Alice; Steele, Elizabeth; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline,

2023.

What we (all) do in the shadows : language learning in the era of machine translation.

In:

3rd International Conference ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (LITHME), Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 15-16 May 2023.
Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

2023.

Mehrsprachige Schreibprozesse unter Verwendung künstlicher Intelligenz : welche Möglichkeiten eröffnet neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung? Welche Risiken birgt sie?.

In:

Schweizer Schreibtag: «Schreiben im mehrsprachigen Kontext», Basel, Schweiz, 29. April 2023.
Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

2023.

A new role for translators and trainers: MT literacy consultants.

The Interpreter and Translator Trainer.

17(3), pp. 393-411.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2023.2237328
Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Summers, Elana,

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.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/cercles-2023-2015
Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Haller, Mara; Lehr, Caroline; Noghrechi, Hasti; Steele, Elizabeth,

2022.

Développer une approche raisonnée de la traduction automatique dans les hautes écoles suisses.

In:

12e Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Lausanne, Suisse, 7 Novembre 2022.
Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli, Sara; Steele, Elizabeth,

2022.

Maschinelle Übersetzung und automatische Textgenerierung : was ist wichtig für den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz in der Lehre?.

In:

Swissuniversities Netzwerktreffen: Innovation in der Lehre, Olten, Schweiz, 28. Oktober 2022.
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 (EST22), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.
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.
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.
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/10.5169/seals-1030137
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/
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
Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

2021.

Machine translation literacy : a panorama of practices at Swiss universities and implications for language teaching [paper].

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
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.
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
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.
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.

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