People from different cultures and language collaborate to meet the needs of a more globalized society. Emerging technologies may be useful in intercultural collaboration to transcend cultural barriers over distributed environments. For instance, a technology to support intercultural collaboration that could be considered is to use a machine translation in intercultural, multilingual collaboration classroom setting.
The online language population is to said to comprise of 1/3 English, 1/3 European languages other than English, and 1/3 Asian languages. The language barrier can be viewed to exist in the online world same as the real world. One technology that can overcome the language barrier to support multilingual communication is machine translation. However, the quality of the machine translation currently has much room for improvement. Although the accuracy of machine translation is far from perfect, machine translation is helpful in such intercultural collaboration setting where no bilingual person is present.
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