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How Beginner Translators Work
Astry Fajria

Universitas Ahmad Dahlan


Abstract

Translation studies have focused mainly on the products, whereas it has wider scope. The translators are invisible, in that the works do not reflect them in person. However, translator serves as the main role in the work. The need to publish articles in English has made more people find beginner translator a savior. However, many who begins as translator find translation challenging. Therefore the paper aims to know the process of how beginner translator, especially students, translate text from Indonesian to English in nowadays digital era, where they have easier access to any source of information. Besides, the paper is to identify the steps they take in translating text. Qualitative-descriptive method is applied in analyzing the data. Eleven students of English Education Department are selected as respondents. The results show that translating Indonesian to English for beginner translator can be difficult, especially when they have to deal with text with specific terms in it. They use several kinds of dictionaries and a popular machine translation, Google Translate. Even so, the respondents managed to check the appropriateness of their work, in terms of diction, grammatical structure, and readability before submitting it. Some of them are less confident in the result, but some others are pretty sure that they have done a good job.

Keywords: translator, machine translation, translation process

Topic: International Conference of English Language Teaching, Literature & Linguistics

Link: https://ifory.id/abstract/urpReGT9mHkj

Conference: The 3rd International Conference on Sustainability and Innovation (ICoSI 2019)

Plain Format | Corresponding Author (Astry Fajria)

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