THE USE OF ICT ON LANGUAGES

The role of computer skills in the formation of modern translator's professional competence Translation tools: Machine translation (MT) --> Substitutes words from a language into another, but cannot produce good translations of a complete text. Computer assisted translation (CAT) --> It's a form of language translation in which a human translator uses a computer software to support and facilitate the translation process.  Terminology management systems: TMS allows translators to create and maintain a personal database of terminology, wich is rederred to as a termbase. Benefits: 1) enhancing and encouraging terminological consistency and thus improve quality of translated texts, 2) prevent translators from undertaking the same terminological searches, 3) translation process is an accelerated due to refuse of previously translated terminology. Localization software: localization involves making the product (e.g. translation project) linguistic...

ICT, Education, Transformation, and Economic Development: an analysis of the US National Education Technology Plan Us development of education (office of educational technology, 2010) released a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan. The NETP calls for a transformation of America education. It'll bring access to teachers, students and broadband connectivity. Recommendations to the NETP are made as part of a constellation related to other components of the education system. ICT, Education, Transformation, and Economic Development Five sorts of research are reviewed in this article: Macroeconomic research -->Macroeconomic trends: shifting by manufacturing to information economy Microeconomic research --> Microeconomic trends: changes in business organization and practices. Labor market and workforce studies Studies showing patterns of the everyday ICT use in American life Studies showing that American schools are not using ICT in a significant way o...

ADOPTION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 1° Document production activities:  Smaller numbers of respondents  (25%) used graphical or presentation software (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint), and 17% used desktop publishing  packages. Web publishing software, such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage, was used by only 13% of the freelancers. 2° Information search and retrieval activities:  A high proportion of respondents (79%) consulted online dictionaries and / or glossaries, and 59% made use of multilingual terminology databanks. 3° Translation creation activities: Computer – aided translation (CAT) tools: 28% of the translators Machine translation systems: 5 % of the sample A very small number of translators 2% were using localisations tools, such as Alchemy Catalyst and Passolo. 4° Communication activities: Electronic mail was in widespread use (93% of the translators used it). The majority of respondents (68%) relied on dial up conections and only 26% used b...

TRANSLATION AND TECHNOLOGY Technology has made possible to instantly analyse vast amount of data rather than having to manually through page after page of information. General aspects needing our fullest attention. Any technical tool will fail sooner rather than later. Tools need to accomodate and follow the grammatic rules Tools are good as identifying typos and doing suggestions.    

An effective use of ICT for education and learning by drawing on worldwide knowledge research and experience.   ICT enhancing learning enviroment  Provides opportunities to access an abundance of information using multiple information resources and viewing information from multiple perspectives, thus fostering the authenticity of learning enviroments. ICT enhancing the quality and accessibility of education ICT increases the flexibility of delivery of education so that learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere ICT enhancing  teaching and learning process This can help to improve and develop the quality of education by providing curricular support in difficult subjects areas. Contributes to increase the interaction and reception of information. Education Reading Writing Numeracy  

The role of ICT sector in expanding economic opportunity. Historical perspective. The ICT are the pioneers in adressing needs. In the 80´s the importance were the PTTS and were expensive and with an atrocious quality. The data network was unexistent In the past 20 years innovation has accelerated dramatically. Technology only increases productivity when lots of people have access. Fundamental role of ICT in modern economic. Reduce transaction costs and thereby improve productivity Offer immediate connectivity – voice, data, visual – Substitute for other, more expensive means of communicating and transacting Increase choice in the marketplace and provide access to otherwise unavailable goods and services Widen the geographic scope of potential markets Channel knowledge and information of all kinds Economic opportunity obstacles Geographic isolation Lack of competition and high prices for consumers Lack of competition and low prices for producers Legal ex...