The Language Immersion Chrome extension is a useful and practical tool for language teachers and students. It provides for all the languages that are available in Google translate, but like all similar digital and web translation applications and extensions, its translations are not perfect.
Language Immersion only translates web pages from English into another language, which I think limits its' usefulness. Please let me know if you have found this not to be the case. It would be a much better product if it was available to also translate from another language into English or other language.
Setting up the amount of text you want translated is easy. By adjusting the level, you can set how much of the web text you want to translate. If you would like to translate the whole text from English into the target language, this extension will translate it, but as mentioned above, I don't think you could guarantee 100% accuracy. I would recommend using it more as a vocabulary support or a scaffolding tool. If you are going to translate the whole text or a large part of it, it would be best to check the accuracy before giving it to students.
Differentiate activities with Language Immersion could be useful as well. By setting the , immersion level for different levels, you could actually create some differentiated activities. It might be easier for the teacher to set the different levels of the web text, then screenshot the page, then distribute the different levels to the students to work with.
Setting up the amount of text you want translated is easy. By adjusting the level, you can set how much of the web text you want to translate. If you would like to translate the whole text from English into the target language, this extension will translate it, but as mentioned above, I don't think you could guarantee 100% accuracy. I would recommend using it more as a vocabulary support or a scaffolding tool. If you are going to translate the whole text or a large part of it, it would be best to check the accuracy before giving it to students.
Differentiate activities with Language Immersion could be useful as well. By setting the , immersion level for different levels, you could actually create some differentiated activities. It might be easier for the teacher to set the different levels of the web text, then screenshot the page, then distribute the different levels to the students to work with.
Language Immersion can be downloaded for free from the Chrome Store. It may be hard to find so here is a shortened url to help http://bit.ly/LangImmerChrome
It's rating of 3.5 stars in the Chrome Web Store is probably half a star too generous.
Below are a few images on how to set up Language Immersion.
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