TRANSLATION PROCESS AND PRODUCT OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE IN TRANSLATING HEALTH ARTICLES FROM ENGLISH INTO INDONESIAN

摘要

Google Translate is the most popular machine translation used by most people in the world. It, then, makes the translation quality of Google Translate very important. This study is a qualitative research which aims to describe the translation errors found in the translation process of Google Translate in translating health articles from English into Indonesian, and the quality of the translation product in target language. This study applies Keshavarz's (1999) and Vilar et al.'s (2006) framework of errors analysis in translation. The data are two articles about the treatment using herbal products which are gained from Medical News Today website. The result of the analysis shows that the process of Google Translate translation still needs some improvements in translating words which are related to the culture and the language system of the TL, which gives impact to the quality of the translation product. This study attempts to give inputs as a contribution to make a better translation for Google Translate, in order to avoid the same mistakes of translation which might happen in the future.