Open AccessAPPLICATION OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE FOR WRITING THESIS ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH (GRAMMAR ERROR ANALYSIS)
Author(s) -
Mulyadi Mulyadi,
Dini Hidayati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
akademika /akademika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2655-9633
pISSN - 2089-4341
DOI - 10.34005/akademika.v10i02.1584
Subject(s) - grammar , nonprobability sampling , documentation , computer science , mathematics education , population , norm (philosophy) , english grammar , islam , linguistics , psychology , sociology , history , political science , philosophy , demography , archaeology , law , programming language
Google Translate is a popular translation and is used by most people around the world. Google Translate not only offers translation in various languages, it can even speed up work Translate. In learning the new norm, Google Translate is considered the easiest way to facilitate translation work and assist students in completing academic assignments. Based on the preliminary survey that had been done toward fifteen English thesis abstracts of post graduate students, it was found a lot of mistakes in the writing (tenses). This research aims at identifying the use of tenses/grammar in English thesis abstracts. The type of this research is descriptive through documentation study approach. The population was all English thesis abstracts at post graduate program Jakarta Islamic University. The sampling was purposive sampling. The data were analyzed descriptively. The results of the research showed that the inappropriate use of tense was more than that of theappropriate one in the part of background; the inappropriate use of tense was more than that of the appropriate one in the part of research method; the inappropriate use of tense was more than that of the appropriate one in the part of result (findings); the appropriate use of tense was more than that of the inappropriate one in the part of discussion; and the appropriate use of tense was more than that of the inappropriate one in the part of conclusion and suggestion