Students’ Errors in Translating Thesis Abstract from Indonesian to English at English Education Program of Universitas Negeri Padang.

Translation is the process of transferring meaning from one language to a recipient language using a semantic structure without changing the meaning of either language. An abstract is a summary of the paper or journal that make it easier to find the research's information. The purpose of this research is to find out the students' errors in translating abstaract from Indonesian toEnglish at English education program of Universitas Negeri Padang. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. The translation task was used as the instrument of the research. The text that was used by reasercher was thesis abstracts. The results of the study was found with the frequency of 47 times of errors. There are missing word in 11 times, word order in 5 times, Incorrect word in 29 times, and the last was punctuation in 2 times of errors. It can be concluded that the most frequent errors occur were the incorrect word in the form of incorrect form. It means that the students have the problem in form of grammar, it was caused because the students the lack of knowledge and understanding in applying accurate grammatical features and vocabulary.