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Master: English as Second Language

How do you translate a full article from a database?

If your article is unable to be translated within a Library database, you may use Google Translate to translate your article. Three ways you can use Google Translate: 

  • Copy and paste the text (up to 5000 characters) into the box. Choose your language, then click to translate. Translated text can be copied into whatever file format you choose. 
  • Upload a .docx, .pdf, .pptx, or .xlsx. Choose the language to be translated into and click to translate. The translated file can be downloaded and saved. 
  • Enter a URL into the search box. Choose your language then click to translate. 

Note: Due to copyright, royalty, and licensing restrictions, certain publishers do not allow the translation of an article to another language.

Database
Languages Translated

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Special notes

Gale or TEL databases

Such as Academic OneFIle, Diversity Studies, and Global Issues in Context.

Forty language options, including Urdu, Chinese, Arabic, Pashto, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese.

* Gale translates text AND provides a Listen option to hear in the language chosen.

1. Before searching, you can change the language. Change the Gale search interface language by hovering over "English" in the very top upper right menu bar.

2. Viewing the article record:

 Click the translate icon, , then choose the language, and the article will be translated.

EBSCO Databases

Such as Academic Search Ultimate, Teacher Reference Center, and ERIC. 

Translation tool options vary by database.

Between 28 - and 32 languages are available.

Look at the top right in the purple menu

for the term 'Languages' to display 

a drop-down list of languages available. 

  There is no translation option for PDF documents, but there is for HTML formatted text.  

ProQuest

Dissertations & Theses Global, and  

Historical Newspapers

Change the language of the interface with the translation tool. 

Translate either a document's abstract or its full text independently of one another.

Click on the head image found in the

top right of the green menu bar.

A list of languages will be

displayed for selection. 

The article must be in HTML to be translated, not as a PDF.

 

EBook Central

  Eleven languages can be applied to change the search interface here.  To set your preferred language for the patron interface, select from the top-right of the screen, then select "Language."  Click the radio button to select the desired language.  Then click "Save Changes."

Highlighted Databases for ESL Education from Tennessee Electronic Library

Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a robust collection of databases and online resources available to all citizens of Tennessee and is freely available for all schools - public or private. Because TEL is a source educators, parents, and students can access easily through their school, we have curated a list of TEL databases (alphabetically) that we think are especially useful to ESL educators.

ALL TEL databases include translation options. 

Ask the librarian at your school if you don't see TEL on your school website!