First-year MA translation students adopt a cautious, pragmatic approach to GenAI, combining NMT for drafting with LLMs for support tasks¶

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q2 i? Students in a pilot survey generally adopted a cautious and pragmatic approach to GenAI, using NMT for draft translations and LLMs mainly for terminology research, style improvement and background research. → Łucja Biel 2026

Evidence¶

Łucja Biel 2026¶

Łucja Biel. (2026). AI Literacy for Legal Translation: Developing Digital Resilience. University of Warsaw. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04641 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.04641

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Pilot survey with open-ended questions conducted in March 2026 among first-year MA students (n=22) in the Applied Linguistics programme at the University of Warsaw; the author reports that students "generally adopt a cautious and pragmatic approach to GenAI". Prompts were mostly introductory zero-shot or few-shot requests.

"The findings indicate that students generally adopt a cautious and pragmatic approach to GenAI, which is broadly consistent with recent surveys of professional translators"

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