Text Translation
Newsela's Text Translator Tool - which can be located on the article's actions bar - offers teachers and students a way to translate articles from English into other available languages (see list below). While we attempt to add the Text Translator Tool to as many articles as possible, some content partners have restrictions in place that prevent us from translating their content, if you don't see the Text Translator Tool within an article, this would be the reason.
While teachers can use the Text Translator Tool wherever it is available, students will only be able to access translations if the tool was enabled for them by their teacher on the specific assignment.
Teachers can turn the Text Translator Tool on or off for their class as a whole or while creating a small group assignment.
When should a student use the Text Translator?
Multilingual learners who are struggling with English comprehension skills as they read Newsela articles.
What will students and teachers be able to translate on the Newsela platform?
Students will be able to translate only paragraphs of text within Newsela articles into a different language. Translations are not available on quizzes or other activities.
What languages are available with the Text Translator Tool?
At this time, translation of content is available in the following languages:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Bengali
Bosnian
Chinese (simplified)
Czech
Dutch
Estonian
French
German
Greek
Haitian
Hebrew
Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Malay
Marathi
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Enabling the Translator Tool on an assignment
Select the article and use the Assignment Builder to define your preferred activities.
Click 'Assign' and proceed to select a class or small group
Select your preferred assignment settings
To enable the Translator Tool on this assignment for your students, check-mark the box next to 'Students can translate each paragraph using AI'
Accessing the Translator Tool in articles
Access the Newsela article
Scroll to the Article Actions bar
Click the ‘translate’ button
the translation icon button will now appear next to each paragraph of the article, click on an icon to open the translator.
Select your preferred language from the dropdown menu