Erica B. Michael
List of John Benjamins publications for which Erica B. Michael plays a role.
Articles
2020 Leveraging Spanish knowledge and cognitive aptitude in Portuguese learning Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language, Molsing, Karina Veronica, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños (eds.), pp. 191–230 | Chapter
This chapter describes a study investigating the question of whether and to what extent the presence of the donor language (L2; Spanish) and the first language (L1; English) in a reading comprehension task facilitates or impedes lexical learning in a related language (L3; Portuguese). The study… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Human use of machine translation to extract information from texts Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research, Lacruz, Isabel and Riitta Jääskeläinen (eds.), pp. 191–216 | Chapter
As Machine Translation (MT) improves, technology is playing a larger role in translation work. Studies find productivity gains from using MT output, but questions remain about when MT is most helpful. Task-based evaluations are critical to understanding how users can leverage MT for tasks other… read more