World Language Policy on Use of Online Translators

World Language students establish their spoken and written voices in their daily classes and become easily identifiable by their vocabulary and structure base. Use of structures and vocabulary far beyond the scope of the curriculum can signal use of online translators. Although World Language teachers encourage the use of dictionaries (including online dictionaries) as a research tool, online translators tend to be unreliable and not educationally beneficial to our students. Additionally, they constitute a form of plagiarism. If any form of plagiarism is discovered in an assignment, the student will receive a zero (0).