JETLi
Vol 5, No 2 (2023): Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics Studies (JET Li)

Grammatical Errors of Google Translate in Translating Narrative Text in Indonesia to English

Br. Kembaren, Farida Repelita Waty (Unknown)
Daulay, Sholihatul Hamidah (Unknown)
Srikandi, Azura (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
18 Oct 2023

Abstract

Many people have recently turned to machine translation to help them translate their documents. However, it is not widely used in the academic field, owing to worries about its trustworthiness in appropriately rendering the source text in the target language. This tool only translates on a word-by-word basis without considering the actual meaning of the text and grammar rules in English. It often applies to the Indonesian structure. So, when students are using Google Translate to translate a text, a new issue arises because it just transfers language without knowing the correct grammar. This research methodology is qualitative research with a content analysis method as the research design. From 5 narrative texts that have been translated by Google Translate from Indonesia to English found that there are two omission errors, four addition errors, six misinformation, and two misordering error and the most common error is misinformation. This study seeks to educate students about grammatical issues that can arise when using Google Translate, allowing them to avoid making the same mistakes and improve their knowledge.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Jet-Li

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

The aim of this Journal is to promote a principled approach to research on language and language-related concerns by encouraging enquiry into relationship between theoretical and practical studies. The journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current analysis in: • first, second, and ...