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The Effects of the Use of Google Translate on Translation Students’ Learning Outcomes

AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume3, Number4. October 2019

15 Pages Posted: 20 Nov 2019

Reem Alsalem

King Saud University - Department of English Language and Translation

Date Written: November 8, 2019

This paper investigates the effects of uncontrolled use of Google Translate (GT) on the development of students’ translation skills. It aims to find out if the current patterns of GT use by translation students could impact their learning outcomes, and if so, in what ways. The study uses think-aloud data from actual translation efforts of four students. Analysis of the four subjects’ translations show that their overreliance on GT for first drafts reduced their propensity to search for equivalents. However, when students post-edit poorly constructed GT sentences, they carry out a process of analysis and synthesis similar to the process of translating from scratch. The study concludes that post-editing GT translation is beneficial for translation students’ development of translation skills, but it warns against introducing or allowing its use at the elementary stages of translation training.

Keywords: Google Translate, machine translation, post-editing, think-aloud, translation memory, translation skills, translation training

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Copyright year: 2011
• Main content: 192
• Keywords: writings on translation ; essays on translation ; translation studies ; culture studies ; translation of poetry ; literary translation ; translation and humour ; translation and politics ; lost in translation
• Published: June 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781847694102

AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATION PROCEDURES USED BY GOOGLE TRANSLATE IN TRANSLATING THE GRAMMATICAL HIERARCHY (A Case Study of English – Indonesian Translation)

Wibowo, Ichsan Mukti (2015) AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATION PROCEDURES USED BY GOOGLE TRANSLATE IN TRANSLATING THE GRAMMATICAL HIERARCHY (A Case Study of English – Indonesian Translation). S1 thesis, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia.

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The present research entitled An Analysis of Translation Procedures Used by Google Translate in Translating the Grammatical Hierarchies aims at analyzing the translation procedures and identifying the translation quality of Google Translate products. A qualitative method was used to analyze the research. In analyzing the data, the researcher refers to some theories of translation procedures proposed by Peter Newmark (1988), Vinay & Darbelnet (1995 in Fawcet,1997) and Larson (1984) and a number of theories of translation quality proposed by Larson (1984), Tytler (1907), Nida and Taber (1982), Tytler (1791 in Basnett, 2002), Massoud (1988 in Abdellah, 2002), and El Shafey (1985 in Abdellah, 2002). The results of data analysis shows that there are seven procedures found in Google Translate products: literal (99 items or 49,5%), couplets and triplets (69 items or 34,5%), transposition (16 items or 8%), transference/borrowing (7 items or 3,5%), paraphrase (5 items or 2,5%), synonymy (3 items or 1,5%), and naturalization (one item or 0,5%). The second finding shows that the translation products of Google Translate is good or acceptable in translating words. On the other hand, the translation quality of GT products was quite unacceptable or inappropriate in translating phrases, clauses and sentences because the meaning was not delivered properly and therefore before using GT to translate phrases, clauses, and sentences, the users have to recheck the results of translation. Based on percentages of acceptable translation (82,5%) and unacceptable (17,5%). In the words level, there are more acceptable items (50 items). In the phrases level, there are 42 acceptable items and 8 unacceptable items. In the clauses level, there are 41 acceptable items and 9 unacceptable items. In the sentences level, there are more unacceptable items (18 items) and 32 acceptable items. Furthemore, the total selected items are 200 items (50 words, 50 phrase, 50 clauses, and 50 sentences). The total acceptable items are 165 items from 200 items and unacceptable items are 35 items from 200 items. Keywords: Translation Procedures, Google Translate, The Grammatical Hierarchy Penelitian yang berjudunl Analisis Prosedur Penerjemahan oleh Google Translate dalam menerjemahkan tingkatan tata bahasa ini bertujuan menganalisis prosedur penerjemahan dan mengidentifikasikan kualitas hasil penerjemahan Google Translate. Metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Dalam menganalisi data, teori prosedur penerjemahan yang dikemukakan oleh Peter Newmark (1988), Vinay & Darbelnet (1995 in Fawcet,1997) and Larson (1984) dan kualitas penerjemahan dikemukakan oleh Larson (1984), Tytler (1907), Nida and Taber (1982), Tytler (1791 in Basnett, 2002), Massoud (1988 in Abdellah, 2002), and El Shafey (1985 in Abdellah, 2002). Hasil dari analisis data menunjukan ada tujuh prosedur ditemukan di hasil penerjemahan Google Translate :literal (99 item or 49,5%), couplets and triplets (69 item or 34,5%), transposition (16 item atau 8%), transference/borrowing (7 item atau 3,5%), paraphrase (5 item atau 2,5%), synonymy (3 item atau 1,5%), and naturalization (1 item atau 0,5%). Adapun temuan kedua memperlihatkan bahwa hasil penerjemahan Google Translate itu bagus dalam menerjemahkan kata. Disamping itu, kualitas penerjemahan Google Translate tidak baik dalam menerjemahkan frase, klausa dan kalimat karena arti nya tidak tersampaikan dengan baik dan jadi sebelum menggunakan Google Translate untuk menerjemahkan frase, klausa dan kalimat, pengguna Google Translate harus mengecek kembali hasil penerjemahannya. Berdasarkan persentase penerjemahan yang dapat diterima sebesar 82,5% dan yang tidak dapat diterima sebesar 17,5%. Pada level kata, terdapat banyak penerjemahan yang dapat diterima sebesar 50 item. Pada level frase, terdapat 42 penerjemahan yang dapat diterima dan 8 yang tidak dapat diterima. Pada level klausa, terdapat 41 penerjemahan yang dapat diterima dan 9 yang tidak dapat diterima. Pada level kalimat, terdapat 18 penejemahan yang tidak dapat dterima dan 32 yang dapat diterima. Jadi, jumlah sampel penelitian adalad 200 item (50 kata, 50 frase, 50 klausa dan 50 kalimat). Jumla penerjemahan yang dapat diterima adalah 165 item dari 200 item dan yang tidak dapat diterima sebesar 35 item dari 200 item. Kata Kunci: Prosedur Penerjemahan, Google Translate, Tahapan Tata Bahasa

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Metatranslation presents a selection of 14 key essays by leading theorist, Theo Hermans, covering a span of almost 40 years. The essays trace Hermans’ work and demonstrate how translation studies has evolved from the 1980s into the much more diverse and self-reflexive discipline it is today.

The book is divided into three main sections: the first section explores the status and central concerns of translation studies, including the growing interest in sociological, ideological and ethical approaches to translation; the second section investigates the key concepts of translation norms and of the translator’s presence, or positioning, in translated texts; the historical essays in the final section are concerned with both modern and early modern discourses on translation and with the use of translation as an instrument of war and propaganda.

This synthesis of the work of a highly influential pioneer in translation studies is essential reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students of translation studies, intercultural studies and comparative literature.

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Chapter | 12  pages, introduction, part 1 | 82  pages, chapter 1 | 20  pages, translation's other [1996], chapter 2 | 13  pages, paradoxes and aporias in translation and translation studies [2002], chapter 3 | 17  pages, translation, irritation and resonance [2007], chapter 4 | 16  pages, what is translation [2013], chapter 5 | 14  pages, untranslatability, entanglement and understanding [2019], part 2 | 86  pages, chapter 6 | 12  pages, translational norms and correct translations [1991], chapter 7 | 20  pages, translation and normativity [1998], chapter 8 | 21  pages, the translator's voice in translated narrative [1996], chapter 9 | 13  pages, the translator as evaluator [2010], chapter 10 | 18  pages, positioning translators, part 3 | 92  pages, chapter 11 | 27  pages, images of translation, chapter 12 | 22  pages, the task of the translator in the european renaissance, chapter 13 | 21  pages, miracles in translation, chapter 14 | 20  pages, schleiermacher [2019].

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