Journal of Language Education (JoLE)
Vol 6 No 1 (2022): Journal of Language Education (JoLE)

AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD THE USE OF GOOGLE TRANSLATOR IN LEARNING PROCESS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT OF BATURAJA UNIVERSITY

Sintia Septinaria (Baturaja University)
Henny Yulia (Baturaja University)
Neti Lastri (Baturaja University)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 May 2022

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to investigate the students’ attitude toward the use of googletranslator, the students frequency of using google translator in learning process and problemswhen using GT and solutions. This study was a case study. The population of this study wasall students of English Education Department of Baturaja University. The researchers usedtotal sampling to take the sample , the sample was all the students of English EducationDepartment. The data collected through the questionnaire and interview. The result of thestudy showed that students’ attitude toward the use of google translator in leaning process werein positive category. The students responses on the attitude aspect were on interval 41% -100% that included in positive attitude. The data of the frequency of GT showed that the meanscore was on 2.34 – 3.66 that means on moderate level. In addition, the result of questionnaireasking about the problems of using GT showed that using GT was not always correct, thesolutions that students found were double check the result of GT. The next problem was aboutsignal which make students cannot access GT and the solutions were using their own effort totranslate it such as using dictionary or another resources.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JoLE

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of Language Education (JoLE) with E-ISSN 2581-1789 aims at providing a forum for sharing, dissemination and discussion of research, experience and perspectives across a wide range of education, teaching, development, instruction, educational projects and innovations, learning methodologies ...