The Effect of Using Google Translator Website on Understanding a Short Story

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