A COMPARISON BETWEEN HUMAN AND GOOGLE TRANSLATIONS

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to know the comparison between human and Google translations in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability at the fifth semester students of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The researcher applied comparative study which compared the quality of Google and human translations based on the criteria of acceptability, readability and accuracy aspects proposed by Nababan. This comparative study was done at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The subject research was 50 students at the fifth semester of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar in 2017-2018. The instrument was a text in Indonesian.The findings of this research were the different scores which showed the different quality between human and Google translations in the terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. The average score of human translation was 2.16, while the average score of Google translation was 2.67 Therefore, it can be concluded that there were some differences between human and Google translations in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability in which Google translation had higher score than human translation. In this case, the quality of human translation was reflected by the quality of the English Department students at the fifth semester at the year of 2017-2018.