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AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS? DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING AN ENGLISH TEXT AT 2013 GRADE OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

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MUDZAKIR, 2017 : An analysis of students? difficulties in translating an English text at 2013 grade of English Education study program
Advisors : Prof. Dr. Agus Wardhono, M. Pd and Dra. Christina ITP, M. Pd
Key words : Difficulty, Translation, English, Written text

This research is conducted to analyze the students? diffficulty in translating an English text at 2013 grade of English study program. It is conducted to find out the kinds of difficulty faced by the students, the most dominant difficulties, and also the responses of the students towards translation subject.
In conducting this research, the researcher used descriptive analysis as the design of the research. Then, the subject of this research is the seventh semester students of English study program. As the instruments of the research, the researcher took the document of the students? answer in their final translation test and also used interview. Then, the writer identified the students? error, gave code to each error, classified and calculated the errors, and gave interpretation at last.
The result of the data analysis shows that there are six kinds of difficulties faced by the students in translating an English text into Bahasa Indonesia. Those are in translating vocabulary, phrase, degree of comparison, passive voice, tenses, and modal. The total number of each one is 61 or 50.50% errors in translating vocabulary, 39 or 32.30% errors in translating phrase, 13 or 10.80% errors in translating degree of comparison, 4 or 3.40% errors in translating passive voice, 2 or 1.70% errors in translating tenses, and 2 or 1.70% errors in translating modal. Then, the writer classifies the students? difficulty into two categories. They are lexical difficulty in translating vocabulary and phrase and grammatical difficulty in translating degree of comparison, passive voice, tenses, and also modal.
Overall, from those errors, the most dominant difficulties are translating vocabulary and phrase. They are 61 or 50.50% and 39 or 32.30%. Meanwhile, the lowest ones are in translating tenses and modal in 2 or 1.70% in each one. The students? responses towards the interview also supported that the most dominant difficulty faced by the students is in translating vocabulary.

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Tuban : Unirow., 2017

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