The Influences of "Google Translate" on Students' Translation Skills

This study is aimed to explore the influences of google translate and the difficulties faced by students when translating a text using google translate. This study uses a qualitative method to collect the data. The sampling technique used in this research is purposive sampling. The reason for purposive sampling is this research is a study that does not aim to generalize so the selected sample must be relevant to the criteria determined by the researcher, and the sample fulfills the research objectives, making it easier for the researcher to reach the target and point to be achieved. The data collection is conducted through in-depth interviews with six participants from the Department of English Language Education, UIN Ar-Raniry. The result of this study is that google translate has a very good influence on a student's study, especially for English language learners. Besides that students also have difficulties when using google translate such as misunderstanding meanings, there are ambiguous words, and internet connections error in translating a text.