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)

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