USING GOOGLE TRANSLATE EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY IN TRANSLATING VIETNAMESE TEXTS INTO ENGLISH ONES

Abstract

With the boom and fast development of AI, using machine translation in translation teaching and learning has been a hot issue that appeals to much attention. Google Translate, one of the most popular machine translation tools, is widely used in translation process in Vietnam university context for different reasons. At Van Lang University, where students majoring in Translation and Interpreting are discouraged to use Google Translate, they still resort to it. However, it seemed that this application did not create a high-quality product when the source language is Vietnamese. Therefore, the author tried instructing the students using Google Translate tool at the second stage after the stage of human intervention so that they can do their translation tasks effectively and efficiently. This article reports the findings from the research done with students majoring in Translation and Interpreting. It initially provides different views of difficulties in dealing with Vietnamese texts and the limitations of Google Translate in providing an English translation version. Then, it proceeds with describing the setting of the present investigation. Based on qualitative research, the information is collected and analyzed, and then, the findings are drawn. The article concludes with modest suggestions and recommendations for using Google Translate to teach translation.