Enhancing Students’ Chinese Translation Skills through ChatGPT

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Chinese has become one of the most popular foreign languages to learn in Thailand, driven by the strengthening ties between China and Thailand in trade, tourism, and education. However, mastering Chinese remains a significant challenge for many Thai students, especially in translation. Unlike speaking, listening, reading, and writing, translation requires a deeper understanding of linguistic structures and cultural nuances. The complexity of Chinese sentence patterns, differences in syntax, and the lack of one-to-one word equivalence between Chinese and Thai make direct translation difficult. The difficulty of Chinese translation and lack of focus on translation skills in conventional language instruction leave students struggling to accurately convey meaning between the two languages, highlighting the need for innovative teaching approaches to solve this gap. This study seeks to examine whether ChatGPT can enhance students’ Chinese translation learning achievement and identify its impact on Chinese translation skills. And also, to investigate students’ acceptance of learning Chinese translation through ChatGPT and the key factors influencing their acceptance. ChatGPT, an AI-driven language model, offers immediate translation support, contextual clarifications, and grammatical corrections, allowing learners to enhance their translation abilities more efficiently. The participants are 50 Thai junior high school students from a junior high school in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They are evaluated with a Chinese translation skill assessment, pre-test, post-test, and TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) questionnaire to assess their learning achievement and acceptance of ChatGPT after using ChatGPT for Chinese translation learning. The experimental results indicate that using ChatGPT for Chinese translation learning can help students improve their learning achievement and enhance their learning acceptance, making them more willing to integrate ChatGPT into their study process.