AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN TRANSLATING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS OF BATANGHARI UNIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEARS 2016/2017

HENDRI TARNI WIJAYA, HENDRI (2017) AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN TRANSLATING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS OF BATANGHARI UNIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEARS 2016/2017. skripsi thesis, Universitas Batanghari.

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Abstract

The objectives of this qualitative study were to find out mastery level of students’ ability in translating descriptive text, and also the method used of students’ in translating descriptive text. This study involved 28 students of Fourth Semester Students of Batanghari University in Academic Year 2016/2017 as the subjects of the study. The data design of this research descriptive qualitative, by given test of translating descriptive text into bahasa Indonesia. The research found that 7 students (25%) obtained a excellent level mastery. Then 19 students (68%) obtained good level mastery. And then, 2 students (7%) of the obtained fair level mastery. While no one of the students scored less than 40, which indicated a poor level mastery. Then the finding also found eight students used the method word for word translation, and seven students used the method literal translation, also seven students used the method faithful translation and the last six students used the method semantic translation. The most dominant method used by the students’ was word for word translation. The mean of students’ ability in translating descriptive text is good. The students’ should be able to know the method that he used to translating the text

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