The Students’ Ability in Translating Feature Article and The Errors They Made: A Study of the Third Year Students of English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang

Windari, Mia (2023) The Students’ Ability in Translating Feature Article and The Errors They Made: A Study of the Third Year Students of English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang. Masters thesis, Program Pasca Sarjana FBS Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

The purpose of translation is to find the equivalent meaning expressed from the source language to the target language. It gets along with the need of information in this global era where people access information from various sources like journals, articles, newspapers. The information may contain terminologies which are difficult to be understood. So, transferring meaning from source language to the target language have to be accurate, acceptable, and readable. Then, this study aims to find out the students' ability in translating feature article from English to Indonesia and to find out what errors students made in translating feature article. In this descriptive research, the population was the students of English Department who are registered in 2018/2019. Cluster random sampling was used in this study as a way to get a sample. The sample was a class of the students who took English-Indonesian translation which consist of 23 students.The results of this research that have obtained in this study were (1) students’ translation ability in translating feature articlewas fairly good; (2) and the students’ translation errors that were most commonly found grammatical errors.

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