TRANSLATION STRATEGIES APPLIED BY THE FIFTH-SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH WRITTEN TEXTS INTO INDONESIAN LANGUAGE

Key Words : Translation and Translation Strategies
This research attempted to find out translation strategies applied by the fifth-semester
students of English Education Study Program in translating English written texts into
Indonesian. It was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative and quantitative
approach. The subject of the research were 61 pieces of translation task collected
from the lecturer into taught translation subject. Data of this research were collected
from the students’ assignment about Explanation text given by the lecturer. The
results of this research revealed that the use of each translation strategy varied in
terms of frequency. The translation strategies used by the students from the most
dominant to the least dominant respectively were as follows ; 1) Borrowing
(56.61%); 2) Omission (29.41%); 3) Synonym (6.80%), 4) Addition (3.49%), 5) and
Transposition (3.49%). The applications of reduction and expansion were not found.
Among all the five translation strategies found in the students’ translation works,
omission, synonym and borrowing were accurately applied. Furthermore, addition
and transposition were not accurately and successfully applied by the students.