Online Learning and Data Driven Learning in Translation Training and Language Teaching

This chapter draws on my experience as a teacher in university translation and English courses and on two research and teaching areas: technology in language learning and the Data Driven Learning approach and its attempt to introduce the analysis of authentic linguistic data in the learning process. It suggests that the two approaches can fruitfully be merged in the perspective of a new exploitation of the associated methodologies and of the tools and resources offered by the web to create online activities directed at the average foreign language students. This could lead to a new way to foster autonomy, awareness and discovery procedures in our classrooms and in self study settings.