Praniti Jurnal Pendidikan, Bahasa, dan Sastra
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): September 2025

Error Analysis Of Students Translations on Descriptive Text Based on Villar et al. (2006)

Wistawati (Unknown)
Mochamad Rizqi Adhi Pratama (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Oct 2025

Abstract

Translation is required by foreign language learners as it is one of the crucial tasks in the process of information exchange. This study aims to explore the translations made by students based on Vilar et al.'s theory which emphasises statistical machine translation errors and difficulties experienced by students, where the errors occur, as well as the percentage of each error in the translations made by students. This study took the subject of 12th grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Ungaran in the 2024-2025 academic year. In this study, the expected result is that students are able to translate Indonesian into English well in terms of vocabulary and grammar, with minimal errors. This study used descriptive qualitative method to analyse the data. The subjects of this study were 36 students. The tool used in this study was a test. After undergoing the test conducted, the findings showed that there were 13 students who committed missing word errors, 7 students who committed additional word errors, 8 students who committed wrong word errors, 8 students who committed punctuation errors, and 0 students who committed unknown word errors. Based on these results, it can be concluded that students still have difficulties in translation practice.

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praniti

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Education

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PRANITI: Jurnal Pendidikan, Bahasa, dan Sastra is a journal of education, language, and literature published by Department of English Literature, Faculty of Economics, Law, and Humanities, Universitas Ngudi Waluyo. Praniti is published four times annually in January, April, July, and October. We ...