Takako RAMSDEN    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2023/07/16
Presentation Theme	Ukyo Voices—A community engagement project involving translation work conducted by L2 learners
Conference	Kyoto JALT—Translation and Translingualism in Language Teaching
Promoters	Kyoto JALT
Conference Type	Local
Presentation Type	Speech (Invitation/Special)
Contribution Type	Individual
Invited	Invited
Country	Japan
Venue	Campus Plaza Kyoto
Holding period	2023/07/16
Publisher and common publisher	Takako Ramsden
Details	The Ukyo Voices project was an extracurricular community engagement activity conducted at a university in Kyoto, with the cooperation of the Ukyo Ward local government, its residents and several organizations. 15 EFL students participated in this project, taking the roles of interviewers/writers/translators, website creators, or photographers. The goal of this project was to create a bilingual website to present the results of the students’ efforts, as well as to help the community promote their area. As for the translation part, the participants used a machine translation (MT) tool with the support of an AI MT developer company, and were able to experience the standard translation process for using MT, including pre-edit and post-edit stages. According to the post-project survey, overall, most of the participants felt this was a very valuable experience, not only for the opportunity it provided for interaction with people from outside the university, but also for the L1/L2 language usage involved in the project. The presenter will outline the project, with a special focus on how the translation work was planned and conducted, and also introduce some spin-off projects that were later conducted using the Ukyo Voices project model.