Hi, and welcome to All Things EAP, a podcast produced by practitioners across the globe and hosted by BALEAP.

In this episode, Mike and Andy explore how students and staff are adapting to advancements in machine translation and generative AI. They also discuss some findings from Mike's recent research that might just challenge what we think we know about these tools. 

Andy McIntosh: "Machine translation has gone more sophisticated. There is evidence that they are actually using it in the classroom to translate life speech, or basically the lecture of what they're saying from English to Chinese."

Mike Groves: "The only sort of caution that was expressed was the idea of students with a degree from these universities going out into the world reliant on translation, and what that would do to the university brand internationally. But apart from that, the academic staff we spoke to were generally accepting."