A case study: A technological insight on teaching translation

Abstract This case study examines an online introductory Spanish‐English translation course focused on learning Spanish through machine translation. Fifty‐three learners were guided by their teacher to rethink, reflect, and interpret what Google Translate offered. Quantitative qualitative analyses of learners' reports feedback revealed that the evaluative task design led (a) high percentages interlinguistic intercultural awareness (b) methods for more than half learners. Participants' responses a literary assignment explored scaffolding understand how differentiate lexical phrasal levels in text, with aim translate also style source text American audience. Pedagogical implications will be shared teacher‐learner approach tasks prepared students language process.