Re-overviewing Google Translate Results and Its Implication in Language Learning

Translation is the hardest process among all process in language learning. It requires the
application of the advanced level of language aspects, including sentence restructuring, context
analysis, meaning interpretation, and so on. It is a time-and-cost consuming process. Despite these
difficulties, the requirement of translation, especially in the field of education is constantly
increased because students from any major of higher education are expected to provide their paper
assignment with adequate sources from credible journal articles that most of them are written in
English. Besides, students are also required to have the abstract of their final assignments written
in English. This concern becomes a big deal for students who are not majoring in English
Department as they definitely find it difficult when it comes to translation. Finding other people
or things to get the translation done, perhaps, is the most appropriate way to choose. Considering
this situation, Google Translate, the most commonly known translation application, is decidedly
used. Google Translate is an automatic cost-free machine translation that provides Multilanguage
translation instantly. Having deep overview toward this application, this present article tries to
examine the process of translation, how Google Translate works in providing translation results as
well as its significance in teaching translation.