Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim)
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Vol 8(1)

Learners’ metacognitive strategies amid machine translation post-editing practices: An Indonesian EFL context

Tandiana, Soni Tantan (Unknown)
Abdullah, Fuad (Unknown)
Andriani, Agis (Unknown)
Rosmala, Dewi (Unknown)
Maakafi, Noha (Unknown)
Hikmatullah, Nanak (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Aug 2026

Abstract

The rapid advancement of information, communication and technology (ICT) has revolutionised translation from translating from scratch (TfS) to machine translation (MT). However, little research has been addressed on how learners apply metacognitive strategies while performing Machine Translation Post-editing (MTPE). As a result, this study was intended to fill this void. Five learners of the English Education Department were involved as investigative participants. The data were gathered through Zoom-mediated Think Aloud Protocols (TAP) as audiovisual recordings of the think-aloud activities, transcript of TAP results and the input event loggings. They were analysed using Arndt's categories of ESL writing strategies, which covered planning, global planning, rehearsing, repeating, rereading, questioning, revising, and editing (Arndt, 1987; Mu, 2005). The findings reported that the learners adopted relatively similar metacognitive strategies while practising MTPE both in English-Indonesian output and Indonesian-English output, except for global planning. In particular, they applied editing (44,2%), rereading (24,1%), repeating (14%), rehearsing (10,4%), questioning (7,1%), revising (0,9%), and planning (0,3%). Given these facts, metacognitive strategies in MTPE practices allow learners to produce more accurate and contextual translation output generated by MTs (e.g. Google Translate, DeepL etc.) and foster high-order thinking skills, self-regulatory strategies and motivation.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JELTIM

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

JELTIM focuses on publishing research articles on innovations and materials in English language teaching. We can accept genuine works on ELT methodologies, curriculum and syllabus, materials, media, computer-based innovations, internet-based interactions, and blended teaching and learning. We ...