Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives toward Computer-aided Translation Tools and Machine Translation: A Case Study of Students of the English Department

Computer-aided Translation (CAT) tools have attracted the attention of scholars who practice translation in various disciplines. The current study investigated undergraduate students’ Perspectives on CAT and Machine (MT). More specifically, it investigates to what extent improve productivity quality. Finally, also explores other merits using tools. present used a qualitative analysis semi-structured interviews answer research questions. findings indicate that most students positive attitude toward Furthermore, show lexical, syntactic, special use expressions as well collocations words cultural connotations were challenging encountered when MT. addition. Improving productivity, enhancing quality, scalability, connectivity are four concepts mentioned by subjects made them tool for than machine translation.