Students’ difficulties in translating english text at the sixth semester English Program of IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Fitri, Aisah (2021) Students’ difficulties in translating english text at the sixth semester English Program of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problem of this research was derived from students‘ difficulties in translating English text that exist in recount text. Students did not understand how to analyze the words or sentences to find the suitable meaning of words or sentences. The objectives of this research is to know the difficulties in translating English text at the sixth semester in English program of IAIN Padangsidimpuan in translation exercise in recount text to Indonesia. Difficulties in translation English text are translating literary text, translating Islamic text, linguistic factors, non linguistic factors, lexical meaning, idiom, strategies in translating ellipsis, lack of vocabulary, grammatical issues, and miss in using transitional words. In this case the objectives of students difficulties in translating English text at the sixth semester are lack of vocabulary, grammatical issues, and miss in using transitional words. This research has been done by qualitative research. The participants of this research were 20 students of TBI-3 at the sixth semester English departments. The data were collected from students‘ documents of answer sheets in translation exercise English recount text. Analysis of the data consisted of 5 steps are; reading the data, making codes or notes, describing the data, checking the difficulties based on indicators, and classifying the difficulties. This research used member checking to check data trustworthiness. Based on the result of the research, there were students difficulties in translation such as lack of vocabulary, grammatical issues and missing in transitional words. 62 errors in lack of vocabulary found in students at the sixth semester, 12 error in grammatical issues found in students at the sixth semester and 13 miss in using transitional words found in students at the sixth semester.

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