STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO TRANSLATE NOUN PHRASES (A Descriptive Study of the Sixth Semester Students of English Department at the University of Bengkulu in the Academic Year 2018/ 2019)

Fauzita, Ananda and Zahrida, Zahrida and Arasuli, Arasuli (2019) STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO TRANSLATE NOUN PHRASES (A Descriptive Study of the Sixth Semester Students of English Department at the University of Bengkulu in the Academic Year 2018/ 2019). Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

The aims of this research were to find out the students’ ability to translate noun phrases. This research applied a descriptive study that used a quantitative design. The subjects were 76 of six-semester students of English Department at the University of Bengkulu in the academic year 2018/2019. The data were collected from a Test. The data were analyzed by using Sudjana’s formula and the level of categories of Harris’s formula. The result showed the percentage of students’ ability to translate noun phrases was 67.1%. It means that more than half of the total subjects were in a poor category. In spite of the students were in poor category to translate noun phrases, actually they have applied translation principle that is translating the text as a whole not word-to-word. There seem several factors that many influence the students translation, namely: Indonesian rules, equivalence word, meaning lost, strategy of learning, idiomatic translation, and using dictionary. Key Words: Translate, Noun Phrases

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