The Integration of Project-Based Methodology into Teaching in Machine Translation

This quantitative-qualitative analytical research aimed at investigating the effect of integrating project-based teaching methodology into teaching machine translation on students’ performance. Data was collected from the graduate students in the College of Languages and Translation, at Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Quantitative data instruments included a Likert scale questionnaire, students’ exam results, and students’ assignments. Qualitative data was gathered using two groups, of 20 students each, from the same research population to explore the effectiveness of project-based teaching methodology. The first group of participants was taught for one semester using traditional teaching methods that depended on direct instruction and memorization of information while the second group of participants was involved in creative projects about various topics on machine translation. Content analysis was conducted to evaluate the participants’ projects. A comparison of the two groups’ final exam results and assignments was made to provide statistical evidence regarding the impact of project-based teaching approach on students’ performance. The discussions of this research include topics on theories and systems of machine translation, the concepts of localization and hybridization, project-based teaching methodologies, and educational technology. The recommendations emphasize the importance of adopting brain-based strategies such as project-based techniques in teaching machine translation, providing professional development programs on using cognitive teaching approaches, and equipping translation laboratories with most recent technologies. The significance of this research derives from being a contribution in three specific areas: integrating education research into teaching machine translation to motivate students to improve their performance; employing educational technology to bridge the gap between theories and practice of machine translation; providing an implementation of creative teaching in machine translation through presenting students’ creative projects. The integrative teaching model, which the researcher presented in this research, is a new approach for solving students’ problems in machine translation.


Introduction
Machine translation is an automatic translation system that makes use of advanced computational linguistic analysis to process source documents automatically to create target texts without human intervention (Quah, 2006). Research (Arnold, 2003;Austermuhl, 2001;Bhattacharyya, 2015;Cronin, 2003;Garrison & Anderson, 2003;Hutchins, 2005;O'Hagan & Ashworth, 2002) indicated that modern technologies, used in developing machine translation, continue to provide new possibilities for machine translation to develop so as to impact daily professional and social life. With the advancement of technology, the need for machine translation has increased. For example, the Internet has connected people of different languages and cultures around the world in such a way as to make machine translation inevitable for translating webpages, and social networks sites. Moreover, with the spread of personal computers, machine translation is now available for various purposes. Systems of machine translation serve professional and non-professional translators in various fields in life. However, while strenuous research efforts have been carried out to develop machine translation systems, strategies for developing teaching and learning machine translation as an academic discipline are still needed. Teaching and learning machine translation is an arduous task due to its complex characteristics which require pedagogic knowledge in various fields including linguistics, translation studies, mathematics, statistics, and Hence, the purpose of this quantitative-qualitative research was to investigate the impact of integrating project-based teaching methodology into teaching machine translation on students' performance. Data was collected from the graduate students at the College of Languages and Translation , Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University, to identify students' problems, and provide empirical evidence regarding the relationships between project-based teaching strategies and students' performance in machine translation. Research (Duch, Groh, & Allen, 2001;Gulpinar, 2005;Sharan & Bierema, 2013;Schunk, 2011) indicated that project-based teaching is founded on brain-research which affected students' motivation, competence, and performance. This research data was analyzed employing the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). In addition, content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The data analysis report provided solutions to the research problems to help students improve their performance in machine translation.
Furthermore, the importance of this research stems from being a contribution in the field of teaching machine translation to graduate students at higher education as it is one of the first studies to integrate project-based teaching methodology to bridge the gap between theories and practices of machine translation in order to help students foster their motivation, and improve their performance. The significance of this research also derives from being a contribution in three specific areas: integrating education research into teaching machine translation to motivate students to improving their performance; employing educational technology to bridge the gap between theories and practice of machine translation; providing an implementation of creative teaching in machine translation through presenting students' creative projects. In addition, the researcher's integrative teaching model, presented in this research, is a new approach for solving students' problems in machine translation.

Research Qestions
The current research study aimed at investigating the problems of teaching machine translation at higher education, and the he purpose of this research was to examine the determinants of the integration of project-based strategies into instruction. To examine the specific variables that could best predict the process of this integration and its impact on students' performance, the following three questions guided the research study: 1) What are the impacts of project-based teaching methodology on students' performance in machine translation?
2) What is the statistical relationship between project-based teaching strategies and students' grades in machine translation?
3) What is the relationship between educational technology and students' creativity in machine translation?

Assumptions and Hypotheses
This quantitative-qualitative, analytical research was based on the assumption that project-based teaching methodologies, which are based on the learning theories of brain-research, would affect students' performance in machine translation. Bridging the gap between machine translation theories and practice through involving students in creative projects would help to enhance students' motivation , competence, and performance.
Integrating the project-based teaching approach into teaching machine translation would stimulate students' www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 9, No. 3; creative abilities to carry out machine translation projects that would help students understand the concepts and practce of machine translation. Another assumption is that using educational technology tools would facilitaeate students' hybrid learning. Based on these assumptions, the research hypothesis states that there is a statistical relationship between project-based teaching methodology and students' performance in machine translation. The null hypothesis is that there is no statistical relationship between project-based teaching methodology and students' performance in machine translation.

Definitions of Terms
This research includes a number of technical terms that are used specifically in the areas of machine translation and education. The following are the definitions of such terms: Alignment: is the process of binding a source-language segment to its corresponding target-language segment for creating a new translation memory database or to add to an existing one (Quah, 2006).
Educational technology: refers to the use of technological tools in learning, including machines, networking, and media (Richey, 2008).
Example-based MT: this method relies on a bilingual database of example phrases derived from a large corpus of texts and their translations (Sumita & Imamura, 2002).
Filter: is a feature that converts a source language text from one format into another to give the translator the flexibility to work with texts of different formats; hence a translation-friendly format contains only a written text without any accompanying graphics. In order to obtain such a format, an import filter separates a text from its formatting code (Esselink, 2000).
Fully Automatic High-quality Machine Translation (FAHQMT): MT performed without any intervention of a human being during the process of translation (Bar-Hillel, 1960. Fuzzy Matching: occurs when an old and a new source-language segment are similar but not exactly identical due to differences of language usages (Esselink, 1998).
Human-Aided Machine Translation (HAMT): A system wherein the computer is responsible for producing the translation with the interaction of human monitoring at many stages during the process of translation (Hutchins & Somers, 1992).
Hybrid Machine Translation (HMT): is based on using statistical and rule-based translation methodologies (Hutchins & Somers, 1992).
Machine translation (MT): An automatic translation system with no human intervention that makes use of an advanced computational linguistic analysis to process source documents and automatically create target texts (Quah, 2006).
Machine-Aided Translation MAT: is used by software community, which develops machine tools in order to perform the tasks of translation (Hutchins & Somers, 1992).
Machine-Aided Human Translation (MAHT): refers to the act of translation as cooperation between the human translator and the machine. The focus of machine-aided human translation is on the human translator who uses a number of tools such as a grammar checker, which examines the grammatical errors that appear because they do not conform to the pre-determined set of grammatical rules stored for a particular language (Hutchins & Somers, 1992).
Machine-aided Translation (MAT): The use of computer programs by translators to help them during the translation process (Hutchins & Somers, 1992).
Perfect Matching: is the exact match which occurs when a new source language segment is completely identical to the old segment found in the database , including inflections, spelling, punctuation (Austermuhl, 2001).
Project-based teaching methodologies: are cognitive teaching strategies that are founded on brain-research, and are connected with various learning theories such as information processing, inquiry-based, problem-based, constructivism, connectivism, and cognitive apprenticeship, among others (Schunk, 2011).
Segmentation: is the process of breaking a text up into units consisting of a word or a string of words that is linguistically acceptable; and this process is needed in order for a translation memory to perform the process of fuzzy and perfect matching (Quah, 2006). www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 9, No. 3; Translation Memory (TM): is a multilingual text archive containing (segmented, aligned, parsed and classified) multilingual texts, allowing storage and retrieval of multilingual text segments against various search conditions (EAGLES, 1996).
Terminology Management Systems: refers to a systematic arrangement of concepts within a special language, and since this system is based on concepts not terms; therefore it is systematic not alphabetical (Bononnon, 2000).
Workbench/Workstation: is a single integrated system that is made up of a number of translation tools and resources such as electronic dictionaries terminology databases, a translation memory, an alignment tool, a tag filter, a terminology management system, and spelling and grammar-checkers (Quah, 2006).

Theoretical Framework
The theoretical framework of this research is based on linking the theories of MT translation to learning theories of cognition. MT does not depend on a single linguistic theory because the majority of MT systems are amalgams of different approaches and models (Hutchins, 2005). The current research focused on examining two approaches of MT theories, namely, the linguistic/translation, and the computational perspectives. The linguistic theories adopted in MT deal with different systems of MT analysis. Theories of Chomsky's (1957Chomsky's ( , 1965 transformational and generative grammar, Jakobson's (1959Jakobson's ( , 2000 functions of the language, Halliday's (1985) systematic functional grammar, and Nida's (1964Nida's ( , 1974 translation theory dichotomy of oppositions, Catford's (1965) contrastive analysis, and Newmark's (1988Newmark's ( , 1998 semantic-communicative translation theory, were used in the first MT systems. The linguistic analysis depends on either word-for-word transfer, which is the replacement of one word in the source text with another word in the target text, or sense-for-sense transfer, which is preserving the meaning of the source text rather than precise wording. Reiss and Vermeer's (1984), and Vermeer's (1996) Skopos theory, which focused on the purpose of translation, allowing source language texts to be translated into a number of different target texts, were also applied. Lederer's (1994Lederer's ( , 2003 interpretive model, and Manttari's (cited in Munday, 2009) translational action, when translation is performed by the information implied in the source text, has impacted the development of machine translation. In this regard, Baker (1999) argued that the corpus-based approach of the language of translation was useful for understanding the purposes of translation and its complex process. Hence, linguistic theories adopt either a formal approach, which represents the formalism school of grammar, when emphasis is put on the description of morphological and syntactic structures, or a functional approach, which characterizes the pragmatic school of language, when language is viewed as a form of social interaction.
Based on linguistic/translation theories, Hutchins and Somers (1992) divide MT system analysis into three different approaches, including: direct, transfer-based, and interlingua. The direct approach uses lexical analysis for direct translation in which each word in the source language is translated directly to its equivalent in the target language without any intermediate phases in the translation process. The transfer based-system uses syntactic and semantic analysis of the source language to transfer the meaning when the translation is achieved through three phases: converting source language texts into an intermediate representation, known as the parse trees; converting the intermediate representations into equivalent ones in the target language; then generating the final target language tex. The interlingua approach depends on converting the source texts into representations common to more than one language, and translation is accomplished in two stages: from source language to the interlingua and from the interlingua to target languages (Hutchins, 2005). Nida provided the basic approach for an applicable translation process that was employed in machine translation, known as rule-based MT. Rule-based MT systems made use of three phases of the translation process introduced by Nida , namely, analysis, transfer, and restructure. Whatever the difficulty in the translation process is, procedures must aim at the essence of the message and faithfulness to the meaning of the source language text being transferred to the target language text. According to Nida and Taber (1974), the process of translation consists of reproducing the target language texts to the nearest possible equivalent in the target languages, converting the semantic aspect, in the first place, then the stylistic aspect. Therefore, the early MT systems used large bilingual dictionaries and coded rules when generative linguistics and transformational grammar were applied to improve the quality of translations.
In this respect, Bennett (2003) confirmed that incorporating linguistic approaches when building MT architectures was necessary to produce effective systems that could be operated at acceptable speed on any standard computer. Holmes (1988Holmes ( , 2000 proposed a conceptual schema of MT approaches, which depended on translation theories. Holmes classified the translation theories and studies to be incorporated into MT into two main branches, namely, Pure Translation Studies, and Applied Translation Studies. The Pure Translation Studies branch includes levels and sub-branches of descriptive translation theories while the Applied Translation Studies www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 9, No. 3; branch consists of four sub-branches, which include: policy, aids, and translation evaluation and criticism. Holmes explained MT theory in terms of the stages that are carried out in the automation of translation, which include: pre-editing of the source text; the input, which is the processing stage; the output, which is the product after being processed; and the post-editing of the target text. Quah (2006) noted that Holmes' schema is "flexible enough to allow changes and developments to occur when technology is involved in both the Pure and Applied Branches" (p. 37).
The second approach of MT theories is computational. The development of controlled Language in 1932 when simplified English was introduced by Charles Ogden via the publication of BASIC (British American Scientific International, Commercial) contributed in developing new MT systems. BASIC aims at using the type of English which is appropriate for science and commerce. In the 1970s, the Caterpillar Fundamental English (CFE) was introduced for commercial use by the Caterpillar Tractor Company. In the 1990s, Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) was developed by Caterpillar. The characteristics of CTE include standardization of English terminology, and comprehension of native and non-native English documents, which facilitated translation into other languages. The computational concepts motivated researchers to develop MT computational architectures which include several systems such as rule-based (RBMT), statistical (SMT), example-based (EBMT), and hybrid. The rule-based machine translation (RBMT) uses linguistic theories which emphasize rules such as lexical transfer, morphology, and syntactic analysis to convert the meaning from one language into another. The translation process in RBMT relies on analyzing the input text morphologically, syntactically and semantically to generate the output text via structural conversions. However, the statistical MT system (SMT) "is characterized by the use of machine learning methods" (Lopez, 2008, p.2), which means that SMT has a learning algorithm that is applied to a large body of previously translated texts, known as parallel corpus. SMT is based on probability by identifying patterns in texts translated by human translators, then selecting the highest probable translation. The example-based approach (EBMT) collects a bilingual corpus of translation pairs and uses the best match algorithm to find the closest example to the source phrase or sentence. The hybrid MT system combines the transfer approach with either SMT approach or the EBMT approach. Hence, the hybrid MT system deals with the full range of language phenomena, complexities of terminology and structure, misspellings, and ungrammatical sentences.
The other group of theories that constitutes the theoretical base of the current research encompasses the cognitive learning theories upon which the project-based learning/teaching strategies are designed. According to Schunk (2011), project-based teaching methodologies are founded on brain-research, and connected with various learning theories such as cognitive apprenticeship, information processing, inquiry-based, problem-based, designed-based, and constructivism. Research (Angelone & Shreve, 2010; Clark & Paivio, 1991;Deceased & Shermis, 2003;Jonassen, et.al, 2003;Illeris, 2009;Sharan & Bierema, 2013) indicated that cognitive learning theories impact students' intrinsic motivation and active learning. Therefore, the current research focused on integrating project-based methodologies into teaching MT to motivate students to understand translation theories, and to provide multiple learning opportunities to put such theories into practice.

Literature Review
The discussions in the literature review include topics on the development of machine translation, the systems of machine translation, the concept of hybridization and quality of translation, project-based teaching methodology, and educational technology. An evaluation of the use of machine translation in the real world is also provided.

The Development of Machine Translation
According to Wilks (2009), the period from 1400s to 1600s was the discovery era which necessitated enhancing communication among speakers of different language. In the 17th century, Leibniz and Descartes proposed their research on codes to relate words between languages. In the 1930s, Georges Artsrouni developed an automatic bilingual dictionary. In 1949, Warren Weaver presented his Translation Memorandum, which was the first proposal on computer-based machine translation. Weaver was influenced by McCulloch and Pitts' (1943) theory on mathematical modeling of the neural structure of the human brain when he proposed the applicability of cryptographic methods. The concept of cryptography is related to Claude Shannon's information theory. Shannon's theory is concerned with the basic statistical properties of communication. The most significant outcome of the Weaver's Translation Memorandum' was the decision in 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to appoint the logician Bar-Hillel to research the use of mathematical formulae in machine translation.
In 1950s, the researchers at Georgetown University experimented with a fully automatic translation of more than sixty Russian sentences into English. Bar-Hillel (1953), argued that MT systems did not operate effectively www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 9, No. 3; because the focus was on translating words rather than the meanings of the texts, and that FAHQMT should not be the goal of machine translation researchers. The actual progress of MT applications began with the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee's (ALPAC, 1966) report, which contained an evaluation of ten years of research, pointing to the feasibility of high-quality machine translation. The first MT research in the 1960 and 1970s depended on linguistic theories of translation, and the research was conducted using empirical trial-and-error methods, adopting statistical analysis of grammatical and lexical regularities among different languages. Thus, the first MT generation applied word-for-word translation method, translating only 250 words, six grammar rules and 49 sentences. However, US government funded large-scale projects to develop MT systems.
The second MT generation systems (from mid-1960s until 1980s) used a large lexicon and a small syntax. The number of MT installed systems increased, including mainframe technology, SYSTRAN, LOGOS, ARIANE-G5, METAL, and METEO. The ALPS (Automatic Language Processing System) was developed, using multilingual terminological data manipulation systems. SYSTRAN was widely used, and the METEO system was in operation in Canada from 1982 to 2001. Pan American Health Organization built two mainframe systems: from Spanish into English (SPANAM); and from English into Spanish (ENGSPAN). According to Guerra (2000, p. 74), these systems were successful for translating conference documents, scientific papers, training materials and technical brief reports. Gouadec (2007) noted that the spread of the Internet activities and the increase of personal computers changed communication practices beyond paper files to enhance the use of electronic emails, word processing, translation memory tools, and terminology management systems. Thus, the progress that MT made resulted in increasing the number of professional and non-professional translators, and localizations.
Moreover, the advent of the millennium witnessed the invention of new technologies, and the birth of the third generation with focus on statistical, example-based MT, corpus-based, and hybrid systems. MT was used for interpretation, speech translation, speech recognition, and speech translation for deaf people. Many projects such as TC-STAR, in Europe, and STR-DUST and US-DARPA-GALE, in the United States, focused on automatically translating political speeches and broadcast news whereas the French -German project QUAERO examined the application of machine translations for a multi-lingual Internet to translate webpages, audio and videos files. Thus, the development of MT has played an important role in enhancing media interactions, and cross culture communication. While MT researchers and engineers have not developed a perfect fully automatic high quality translation (FAHQT), yet, there are many systems which provide advanced machine translation services.

Systems of Machine Translation
MT systems are based on translation memory systems. According to EAGLES (1996), translation memory is a multilingual text archive which contains segmented, aligned, parsed and classified multilingual texts, and it allows the storage and the retrieval of multilingual text segments against various search conditions. Segmentation is the process of breaking a text up into units consisting of a word or a string of words that is linguistically acceptable; and this process is needed for the translation memory to perform fuzzy or perfect matching processing. Alignment is the process of binding a source-language segment to its corresponding target-language segment for creating a new translation memory database or to add to an existing one. According to Bononno (2000), terminology management system is a systematic arrangement of concepts within a special language, and since this system is based on concepts not terms; therefore it is not alphabetical. In such a system, each concept has a label, called a term which is a single word or a string of words used to represent it into the language of the specialized field.
According to Hutchins (2000), a machine translation system can be classified as operating on one of three levels: basic, standard, or advanced, depending on the size of the dictionaries and the syntactic analysis used. The basic level contains less than 50,000 entries in its largest dictionary, with restricted dictionary expansion, and restricted to single-clause translations, therefore, it is suitable for home use. The standard level has more than 50,000 entries in its largest dictionary, allowing dictionary expansion, and permitting more than single-clause translations; and it is suitable for home and office. The advanced level has more than 75,000 entries in its smallest dictionary, and it allows dictionary expansion, and is capable of more than single-clause translations; hence, it is suitable for offices with network facilities.
MT systems include linguistic and computational architectures. The linguistic architecture consists of the direct approach, the transfer-based approach, and the interlingua approach. The computational architecture includes the rule-based approach, the corpus-based approach, and the hybrid approach. Quah (2006) observed that the rule-based system is deductive because it is based on linguistic rules built in the system by the designers. The corpus-based system is inductive because the rules are derived from the translation examples and modification www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 9, No. 3; can be made by adding new translation examples. Furthermore, in new MT systems, workbench or workstation systems were developed as a single integrated system which is made up of a number of translation tools and resources such as a translation memory, an alignment tool, a tag filter, electronic dictionaries terminology databases, a terminology management system and spelling and grammar-checkers. The database model has a component that stores all previously translated material in one database. In the reference model, the translation database is empty until relevant source and target-language texts are loaded into it. The new MT systems also have a concordancer, which is an electronic tool used in language learning, literary analysis, corpus linguistics, terminography and lexicography. The concordancer allows the user to select a phrase and displays the uses of that word or phrase in a selected corpus in order to show where and how often it occurs, and in what linguistic contexts it appears. Localization tools have also been added to the new systems. Localization covers three issues: language, culture, and technicalities. The localization process involves three stages: the project, the preparation, and the translation with quality assurance.

The Concept of Hybridization and Quality of Translation Technology
Hybridization refers to the strategies of combining two or more MT systems together to improve the translation process. For example, Costa-jussà and Fonollosa (2015) argued that a hybrid system could incorporate corpus-based rules or combine various corpus-based approaches. This combination can be effected in two main ways: using rules at pre/post-processing, or integrating dictionaries/rules into the core model. The applications of MT with hybrid components include retrieval of cross-lingual information, computer-aided translation, and speech translation.
In this respect, Hunsicker, Yu, and Federmann (2012) introduced the substitution-based, hybrid MT system after examining a number of MT systems, including the Open Source Machine Translation System Combination (Barrault. 2010), Lucy RBMT system, as described in Hunsicker, Yu, and Federmann (2012), Moses, Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation (Koehn et al., 2007), and Joshua, Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation (Li et al., 2009). Hunsicker, Yu, and Federmann argued that while statistical MT (SMT) systems suffered from a lack of grammatical structure, resulting in ungrammatical sentences, RBMT systems had problems with a lack of lexical coverage. Hybrid architectures intend to combine the advantages of the individual paradigms to achieve an overall better translation. Federmann et al. (2010) and Federmann and Hunsicker (2011) believed that using a substitution based approach could improve the translation quality of a baseline RBMT system. Therefore, the output of an RBMT engine serves as the translation backbone. In other words, Hunsicker, Yu, and Federmann's proposal of the hybrid system architecture combines translation output from the Lucy RBMT system (Alonso & Thurmair, 2003); the Linguatec RBMT system (Aleksic &Thurmair, 2011); Moses (Koehn et al., 2007); and Joshua (Li et al., 2009).

Project Based Teaching Methodology
According to Schunk (2011), project-based techniques are connected with cognitive learning theories that require a shift in learning objectives so as to stress higher order thinking skills and performance-based assessments.
Cognitive learning theories emphasize that instruction should be as meaningful as possible to the learner, and that information should be introduced in an authentic context, and in collaborative interactions. Research (Duch, Groh, & Allen, 2001;Gredler, 2005) indicated that project-based teaching, which is based on brain research, can stimulate learners' cognitive abilities and help students improve their performance. Project-based teaching approach is founded on inquiry-based learning, emphasizing questioning and critical thinking. Project-based teaching techniques urge students to determine their own learning goals, expectations, and achievement standards. Learning, thus, becomes experiential, meaningful, and valuable. In this light, Dewey (1916) defined education as "reorganization and reconstruction of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases the ability to direct the course of subsequent experience" (p. 76).
Hence, the primary difference between project-based teaching strategies and traditional teaching methods is that the traditional approach is basically teacher-centered, which depends on direct instruction to explain, or describe knowledge in a sequential order whereas the project-based method is student-centered, which implements collaborative activities to analyze, criticize, evaluate, and create new knowledge in a non-linear way. Furthermore, project-based teaching approach can be integrated into problem and inquiry-based techniques because the three approaches are related to the information processing strategies, which can be applied through using technology as a learning tool.
Using technology creates open-ended learning opportunities for students. Watson (2005) argued that project-based learning focuses on developing creativity whereas problem-based learning relies on the process of solving problems. Some of the benefits of project-based techniques include the enhancement of cooperative learning, and critical and creative thinking.

Educational Technology
Research (Beldarrain, 2006;Dudeney & Hockly, 2007;Ellison & Wu, 2008;Glass & Spiegelman, 2007;Juniu, 2006) indicated that the application of educational technology such as Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 changed teaching and learning significantly. Using educational technology in conjunction with machine translation is of utmost importance in implementing a project-based methodology as students can use various technological tools to carry out their projects. For example, multimedia packages, such as video applications, can be used by teamwork for sharing information. Film making engages students in the processes of exploration, construction, and reflection on a subject while the finished film is the visualization of the process of learning. Juniu argued that educational technology facilitated "alternative pedagogical models of guided and reflective inquiry through extended projects that generate complex products and results in the assimilation of information" (p.71).
Incorporating technology into project-based strategies can increase motivation. Technology can foster the inquisitive process that students need to become inventors and innovators. Moreover, Zhang (2010) asserted that using computers, and multimedia-network technology helped in changing the lecture-based teaching process into interactive models of involving students in active learning. The Internet has become a pedagogical approach to stimulate inquiry-based learning when students formulate investigative questions, analyze information, and construct new knowledge.

Participant Characteristics
This quantitative-qualitative, analytical research aimed at examining the impact of integrating a project-based problem into teaching machine translation on students' performance. The participants were selected from the graduate students who studied machine translation for the first time, at the College of Languages and Translation at Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The sample contained 100 participants, who voluntarily agreed to complete the research questionnaire. However, cultural constraints affected the scope of this research since the research sample was selected from only feamle graduate students. The participants' age profile ranged between 21-25 with the percentage of 74% , and 19-20 with the percentage of 26%. The participants' social status indicated that 74% were married , and 26% were single. Regarding the participants' language profiles, and based on their GPA, the percentage of students with advanced language level reached 85%. The advanced level refers to language scores between 85-99 out of 100. The intermediate language level reached 71%. The intermediate level points to language scores between 70-84 out of 100. Furthermore, qualitative data was gathered using two groups, of 20 students each, from the same research population, to explore the effectiveness of project-based teaching methodology.

Measures
A 5-point Likert-scale questionnaire, ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree was used to collect this research quantitative data. The first part of the questionnaire provided the participants' demographic information. The second part of the questionnaire included 29 items regarding the problems of machine translation and the integration process of project-based strategies into teaching methodologies. Qualitative data was gathered using two groups, of 20 students each, from the same research population to explore the effectiveness of project-based teaching methodology. The first group of participants was taught for one semester using traditional teaching methods that depended on direct instruction and memorization of information while the second group of participants was involved in creative projects about various topics on machine translation. Quantitative data was coded and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) while qualitative data was coded and analyzed using and Nvivo 9 software. The questionnaire reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha.

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Results
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Qualitative Data Analysis: Students' Creative Projects
The project topics focused on MT concepts and their applications, which included workstation , workflow, MT systems and architectures, database model, database -reference model, coding, encoding, direct system, rule-based MT, corpus-based MT, hybrid MT, translation memory systems, terminology management systems, segmentation, filter, alignment, concordances, localization tools, among others.
A rubric was created to assess the projects. The evaluation rubric included 5 categories: project content, language level, application of theories, technology level, and translation skills. Each category carried 20 points in the rubric scale. The scores from 95-100 refer to the high advanced level A+. The scores from 90-94 refer to low advanced level A. The scores from 85-89 refer to the high intermediate level B+ while the scores from 80-84 refer to B, which is low intermediate. The scores from 75-79 refer to C which is the average level while the scores from 70-74 refer to below average level C-. The scores from 65-69 are the weak level whereas the scores from 60-64 refer to passing unsatisfactorily. The scores below 60 refer to a very weak performance that requires repeating the experience of project-based environment. Integration of Project-based strategies into MT Strengthens Active Learning 90 Integration of Project-based strategies into MT Enhances Independent Learning 87 Project-based Methodologies Narrow the Gap between MT Theory and Practice 94 Table 4 shows that nine themes emerged from the analyses of the qualitative data, which include project-based strategies enhance students' motivation ( 98 out of 100 participants), project-based methodologies facilitate learning (95 out of 100 participants), project-based methodologies narrow the gap between MT theory and practice ( 94 out of 100 participants), the integration of project-based methodologies into MT fosters creative  In project parents an English-A MT system developing

Discuss
Comparing traditional statistically The current research quantitative and qualitative data analysis indicated that adopting project-based teaching methodology, which aims at enhancing students' higher order cognitive and metacognitive thinking, affects students' motivation, cooperative learning, competence, and performance. Watson (2005) discussed the advantages of project-based and problem-based learning including acquiring knowledge of the subject content, using appropriate learning resources, and gaining real life skills. Watson argued that the significance of project-based learning arose from putting learning into action, developing critical thinking, and making the learning experiences meaningful. Moreover, the multimedia applications that students employ while creating their projects intensify student's perception of the abstract ideas of the course they study. Furthermore, Chauncey and Azevedo (2010) argued that the motivational force in integrating computer-based instruction strengthened students' independence and self-management. Computer-based instruction is relevant to MT due to the application of technology in learning. Ryan and Deci (2000) asserted that technology enhanced intrinsic motivation, and that intrinsic motivation was derived from the students' themselves when they were experiencing deep-level of learning and satisfying their curiosity and explorative thinking. In harmony with this argument, Katuk, Kim, and Ryu (2013) asserted that those learners' best experiences occurred when creating stimulating environments, and raising the challenges to gain knowledge, and acquire refined skills.
The aim of this research study was solving the problems of students who study machine translation for the first time. Based on the assertion that problem-based teaching techniques are effective in helping students use their cognitive abilities, integrating project-based teaching methodologies into teaching machine translation could be an avenue for providing appropriate solutions. Angelo and Shreve (2010) emphasized that understanding the cognitive processes involved in translation elucidated the complexity of translation tasks. Project-based teaching approaches, which are based on higher order thinking, are relevant to teaching machine translation. Students need to understand the concepts of machine translation theories in order to comprehend their applications in practice. Students should be engaged in projects that help them perceive such a relationship. Therefore, in the light of the results of the current research, the researcher presents herein the following recommendations. First, integrating project-based teaching methods into machine translation instruction is important for helping students be involved in learning activities that require developing their cognitive abilities. Figure 4 displays the integration process. would motivate students to develop advanced skills in using machine translation in their daily lives. Developing some of the students' creative projects in machine translation into further research would help higher institutions to advance in the field of machine translation.
The third recommendation is to provide professional developments programs for teachers to train them to use educational technology since technology is an essential component of teaching machine translation.
Fourthly, equipping the translation laboratories with the most sophisticated technology is indispensable in order to provide adequate training for students. As such, bridging the gap between theory and practice in machine translation becomes real.
In conclusion, the focus of this quantitative-qualitative research was on the problems and solutions for machine translation as an academic course at higher education institutions. Data analysis results pointed to the positive impact of integrating project-based teaching methods into teaching machine translation on students' performance.
Engaging students in creative projects would not only help them to improve their academic achievements, but would also play an effective role in developing new tools for automated translation. The discussions on the research data analysis include content analysis of students' projects and how they can put machine translation theories into practice. The review of the literature contains a thorough analysis of previous research on machine translation and project-based teaching and learning approaches, and the application of educational technology in the classroom. The contribution of this research is derived from three specific areas: integrating education research into teaching machine translation to motivate students to improve their performance; employing educational technology to bridge the gap between theories and practice of machine translation; and providing an implementation of creative teaching in machine translation through presenting students' creative projects. Student's creative projects presented in this research provide numerous ideas for classroom instruction that is founded on cognition and constructive knowledge. The integrative teaching model, presented in this research, is a new approach for solving students' problems in machine translation.