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Pedagogical Implications of AI-Assisted Translation in Undergraduate Chinese Language Education: A Study Based on Learners' Chinese-Korean Translation Activity Data

  • Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
  • 2026, (102), pp.179~210
  • DOI : 10.15792/clsyn..102.202608.179
  • Publisher : Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : July 20, 2026
  • Accepted : August 13, 2026
  • Published : August 30, 2026

Kim YoungIn 1

1영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study explores the educational significance of AI-assisted translation activities in an undergraduate Chinese-to-Korean translation course. The data were collected from an “AI Chinese-Korean Translation Practice” course offered in the first semester of 2026 and include direct translations, marked translation difficulties, prompts, AI-assisted revisions, final translations, and self-analyses produced by 16 learners for five Chinese texts. Rather than treating AI output as a finished translation, the study focuses on how learners identified problems in their own translations, formulated those problems in prompts, compared AI-assisted revisions with their initial drafts, and revised their final translations. The analysis shows that learners recognized difficulties related to lexical meaning, syntactic structure, culture-specific expressions, and genre-appropriate Korean expression during the direct translation stage. They then used prompts to make these difficulties explicit and, in the final revision stage, selectively accepted, partially accepted, or rejected AI suggestions. These findings suggest that AI-assisted translation activities can function as a feedback-based learning activity when embedded in a sequence of source-text comprehension, problem identification, prompt writing, comparison, and revision. In such a sequence, learners first produce their own translations and then examine and adjust them against self-set goals by drawing on AI output as feedback. In this sense, such activities can support learners’ source-text comprehension, expression selection, self-monitoring, and critical use of AI.

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