An Analysis On Sixth Semester Students' Error In Translating British Royal Speech

Putri, Annisa Meliani (2022) An Analysis On Sixth Semester Students' Error In Translating British Royal Speech. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

This thesis aims to find the most frequent translation error that the English Education students of Universitas Islam Riau Academic Year 2018/2019 in translating a speech from one of English royal family members on the death of her father from English to Indonesian. To achieve the goal, the researcher used qualitative descriptive method as the research methodology to gather the data to respond to the research questions posed in the problem statement then present and describe the prevalent errors in students’ translation. The population of this research is the students of the sixth semester in English Education Department, University of Islamic Riau while the participants of this research are 28 students of class A Academic Year 2021/2022. Because of that, the researcher decided to use purposive sampling. The instrument of the research is written test due to the nature of the research where the students received the speech text then translate it. The answer sheets were collected and analyzed to find the common translation errors in them. The research showed that the students tend to make linguistic errors with 63 errors was found in the 28 students’ translation while the second common error is rendition error. From the analysis, it can be inferred that the students faced difficulty in translating because the numbers of students misinterpreted the sentences in the source text which affected the quality of the translation. The students also are still struggle with equivalence as the case where words from source language that were translated into target language were not equivalent.

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