Students’ Difficulties and Strategies on Translation Process at English Education Department

Authors

  • Farida Repelita Waty Kembaren State Islamic University of North Sumatera, Indonesia
  • Maryati Salmiah State Islamic University of North Sumatera, Indonesia
  • Putri Intan Ramadani State Islamic University of North Sumatera, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v11i2.4141

Keywords:

higher education, short story, translation studies

Abstract

This research investigated to know the students difficulties and strategies  on translating religious story from English into Indonesian in English Department. The research method used in conducting this research is descriptive qualitative. This is intended so that readers can find out what errors often occur when students translate. This study found that there were three difficulties  in the translation results of students. Namely social culture difficulties, religious cultures difficulties, and material culture difficulties. After anlyzing the results of the students translation the researcher can see several factors causing mistakes made by students such as most students make some words into the target language (addition words), students lack of words choice and most students during translatio process mistranslated of the word (omission), In addition, students also lack understanding of context and their lack of understanding of words related to cultural aspects. To overcome these difficulties in the translation process, there are only 3 strategies that are most widely used by the participants in the translation process. The three strategies are as follows: translation by more general, translation by paraphrase using related words and translation by more natural words. It was easy to understand the content of the text when they used these three translation strategies.

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2023-12-19

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature

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