The use of machine translation services in writing

Hanifah Mutiara Puspa

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This study aims to find out about the use of machine translation in academic writing courses by students and whether machine translation has a vital role in students' writing in academic writing. The subjects of this study are students who are majoring in English education and have taken Academic Writing in semester 6. The research data was collected by face-to-face semi-structured interviews. In this study, Machine Translation plays an important role in student writing. Their status of not being a native speaker is the reason why machine translation is used continuously. The majority of them said that without machine translation, they were not confident in their writing. 


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12928/iucee2024.v3i1.14604

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