The aim of this study is to measure the difficulties faced by Non-English lecturers of
universitas riau kepulauan on using machine translation on writing article. It is a qualitative
research by using descriptive analysis. Questionnaire was used to collect data; the
questionnaire was shared to all lecturers of Riau Kepulauan University, as the respondents.
Based on the questionnaires, it was found that there are some difficulties such as idiom, not
accordance with the principle of translation and sometimes the word cannot be found on the …