STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD THE USE OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE IN TRANSLATING

Abstract

This study aims to reveal students’ perception toward the use of google translate in translating at English Education Department, Universitas Negeri Manado. This research was a quantitative research and descriptive method is applied. A questionnaire that consists of 17 items was used as an instrument to collect the data. The questionnaire employed Likert scale. The sample was 30 eighth semester students of English Education Department Universitas Negeri Manado. The collected data were quantitative and analysed with percentage formula. Based on the findings, almost all statements received positive responses from the respondents.The 8th semester students of English Education Department like the activity of translating and they do the translation easier using Google Translate. In addition,  40.3% of the respondents disagreed about the statement “google translate can translate paragraph by paragraph effectively”, 60% of respondents agreed that google translate made them lazy to open dictionary.