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The use of Machine Translation (MT) by non-native language learners is a reality highlighted by several studies (CLIFFORD et al., 2013; ALHAISONI and ALHASYSONY, 2017; AUTHOR, 2018). Such practice provokes reactions on the part of teachers, mainly due to their concern with the process of language learning of students who use MT and with the possibility of cheating on the part of the students who may hand in to their teachers machine translations as their own productions. Hence, researches (DUCAR & SCHOCKET, 2018; HENSHAW, 2020) are being carried out aiming to find out the best way to cope with the practice of using MT in non-native language teaching and learning. The research that grounded this article has been conducted with the aim of contributing to that discussion bringing to the table the perceptions, attitudes and opinions of teachers from a Brazilian language teaching and learning context. The data have been generated by means of an online questionnaire (Google forms) applied to 12 language teachers whose answers have been tabulated, categorized, interpreted and contrasted with results of other researches with similar interests. The results show that the language instructors questioned have perceptions similar to those of the participants of researches conducted in other contexts that discussed that aspect of the question. We also found out that those teachers have flexible attitudes and favourable opinions towards the use of MT by non-native language learners and even towards the integration of MT to language teaching and learning, since there are adequate conditions.
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