STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT
Nowdays, there are many translation problems although software application to assist translation are available. The objectives of this research were to identify types of error in translation, students’ difficulties in translating text, and factors which influence students’ error in translating in E...
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Nowdays, there are many translation problems although software application to assist translation are available. The objectives of this research were to identify types of error in translation, students’ difficulties in translating text, and factors which influence students’ error in translating in English department of State Institute for Islamic Studies Bengkulu. This research used descriptive quantitative method. The results of this research showed that students’ difficulties in translating English text, were elliptical errors (67.29%), idioms (87.5%), and textual meaning (73.54). The difficulties of students in translating were lack of vocabulary (87,50%), difficult translating Islamic texts (75,00%), literary works (66,66%), and grammatical issues (62,50%). Then, the factors affected students’ error in translation were ignorance of ellipsis; unable to identify ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; lack of strategy in translating ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; translating words per word; most students lack a strong background on the content of the text. It was concluded that the students got three types of error in transalation, four points difficulties in translation, and six factors which influence the students’ error in translation.
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spelling | doaj-art-a93ae30a4fba49b2aa79aba19c0c909d2025-02-10T11:05:47ZengUNIB PressJournal of Applied Linguistics and Literature2502-78162503-524X2019-02-0141STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXTArono Arono0Nadrah Nadrah1Universitas BengkuluIAIN Bengkulu Nowdays, there are many translation problems although software application to assist translation are available. The objectives of this research were to identify types of error in translation, students’ difficulties in translating text, and factors which influence students’ error in translating in English department of State Institute for Islamic Studies Bengkulu. This research used descriptive quantitative method. The results of this research showed that students’ difficulties in translating English text, were elliptical errors (67.29%), idioms (87.5%), and textual meaning (73.54). The difficulties of students in translating were lack of vocabulary (87,50%), difficult translating Islamic texts (75,00%), literary works (66,66%), and grammatical issues (62,50%). Then, the factors affected students’ error in translation were ignorance of ellipsis; unable to identify ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; lack of strategy in translating ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; translating words per word; most students lack a strong background on the content of the text. It was concluded that the students got three types of error in transalation, four points difficulties in translation, and six factors which influence the students’ error in translation. Keywords: Translation, difficulties, and English texthttps://ejournal.unib.ac.id/joall/article/view/7384 |
spellingShingle | Arono Arono Nadrah Nadrah STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature |
title | STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT |
title_full | STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT |
title_fullStr | STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT |
title_full_unstemmed | STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT |
title_short | STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT |
title_sort | students difficulties in translating english text |
url | https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/joall/article/view/7384 |
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