Machine Translationas An Educational Tool: Opportunities and Challenges for Learning Arabi As a Foriegen Language

Abstract

In this research paper, we seek to shed light on one of the modern educational tools that learners of foreign languages in this era have come to refer to in their language acquisition journey, namely machine translation, by addressing it as an aid in promoting the learning of foreign languages in general and the Arabic language for non-Arabs in particular, by identifying and monitoring the extent of its potential to be an aid to learning the Arabic language with its unique characteristics, as well as monitoring the challenges that non-Arab learners may face when learning Arabic language through this tool, hence the central issue: to what extent can machine translation be relied upon in teaching languages in general and the Arabic language in particular? What are the possibilities that users of machine translation take advantage of for the purpose of learning Arabic and what challenges they face when doing so?