CHALLENGES IN USING MACHINE TRASLATION TOOLS IN TRANSLATION CLASS, ENGLISH MAJORS

Translation is the process of converting words from one language into words in another with the same meaning. With the advent of technology, machine translation (MT) was created, which has rapidly become an indispensable tool for students of different disciplines, especially translation major, to assist their translation tasks. Considering the effects of these digital tools on students of translation classes, this study was carried out to investigate possible challenges of machine translation software faced by English majors. In particular, 100 fourth-year students majoring in Business English at National Economics University participated in the study. Data was collected through a questionnaire with 11 items. The findings apparently illustrated that students used machine translation very often to translate texts and Google Translate was reported as their most popular machine translation tool. At the same time, it was also revealed that machine translation would possibly cause challenges related to grammar and syntax aspect, word translation and phrase translation. Thus, several solutions were proposed to address these problems, with implication of improving certain functions and features of machine translation systems to suit the needs of learners and satisfy the accuracy of the target text.