Google Translate is probably the most widely used online
translation tool, but there are others that will also do the
job. Several are listed in ICT4LT Module 3.5, Section 3 (Machine
Translation). Such tools have been the bane of language
teachers’ lives ever since they became widely available on the
Web. The teacher sets a text to be translated for homework and
the students use Google Translate to do the job, thus saving
themselves work and driving their teacher mad when they turn in
a piece of work that is full of mistakes that reveal clearly
that an automatic translation tool has been used. Or the teacher
may ask the students to produce an original composition in a
foreign language - so they type it out in English and paste it
into Google Translate. Again, the output is full of mistakes but
often of a different kind, for example the students may be using
constructions in English that are way beyond what they would be
capable of using in the foreign language. And many mistakes made
by Google Translate are m