Abstract
Translation has historically been performed by traditional ways like paper dictionary or by asking expert bilinguals who is equipped by strong knowledge. This way of translation was further driven by the digital revolution in the 90s where a huge need of interpreting text from source language and into target language. Twenty years on, translation means continue to flourish, even tending towards machine translation. Consequently, this technology became a part of everyone’s life. This paper is to highlight the advantage of using Google translation website on understanding a short text by secondary school students. Keywords: Google Translate, ESP students, machine translation, translation utilization. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-18-14 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Highlights
Using technology, smartphones has affected the behavior of people and change is touched by educators more keenly than most
Materials: Short story consists of 100 words beginner-level, namely (The Yellow Pencil)
6.2 Results and Discussions Five comprehension questions were given after reading a short story consists of 100 words designed for beginners level
Summary
Smartphones has affected the behavior of people and change is touched by educators more keenly than most. This paper discussing the effect of using machine translation in the form of Google website as an assistant tool to enhance students’ understanding of an English text consists of 113 words in a story context. The Author suggests that the use of grammatical structures is English must be more focused: otherwise, Google translator website appears to operate primarily as a bilingual dictionary rather than a proper MT program.
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