Next Generation Mobile Learning: Leveraging Message Design Considerations for Learning and Accessibility

Online machine translation (OMT) tools are not exclusively designed for language learners; however, these popular among them. This quantitative study investigated the perceptions and attitudes of Turkish speaking EFL learners instructors in a university English program regarding use OMT tools. Two online questionnaires were administered to 462 Turkish-speaking 34 instructors. The results revealed that 94% learner participants reported using their learning studies. predominantly used single-word or phrase translations. Reading writing assignments main areas where most frequently referenced thought accuracy was high, ethicality them depended on how they used. Three-quarters instructor tools, judgements concerning more positive than learners’. also mismatch between learners’ instructors’ foreign learning. Accordingly, often overestimated much while underestimated interest These findings suggest policies should be developed within institutions guide students’ as well improve mutual understanding students teachers terms ethicality.