Using Google Translate to Improve Junior Students' Translation

Abstract

Using Google Translate to improve junior students' translation research was conducted to know the effects of Google Translate and to know the students' opinion about it. This study would help students to face the difficulties they faced in translation. The experimental group in this study, which took place at Yanbu University College (women's campus), contain 6 junior students. The result of this study showed that Google Translate affected students’ translation in some part; it influenced the student's comprehension, word selection, and punctuation, but it did not affect idioms translation. Moreover, the students had almost a positive opinion on it.