Joal : Journal of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): January, 2025

Analysis of Student’s Difficulties in Translating Argumentative Text

Ginting, Lastry (Unknown)
Harahap, Fitri Ramadani (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jan 2025

Abstract

In this study the objective is identify the difficulties of the students when they translate argumentative text from English to Indonesian, what is the difficulties of the students when they translate the text. This research is done through descriptive qualitative method and the data collected by given the text to the students and the students translate the data. After the data were collected then the writer analyzed the data by elaborated the mistake and difficulties of the students. The result indicates that there are some difficulties that made by the students. Such as when the students translate word to word they still make the mistake because they can’t find the word in the dictionary, the second group to group translation, the students still make the mistake when translate more than one words.  From the percentage of the factors that make the students difficult in translating argumentative text, the students dominant chose often and sometimes in their questionnaire and the average of percentage is 45 % students chose sometimes and 55 % students chose often. It can be concluded that there are still so many students’ difficulties when they translate the English text especially argumentative text. Keywords : Difficulties, Translation, Argumentative text

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Journal Info

Abbrev

joal

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of Applied Linguistic (JoAL) is a Journal that published twice a year, namely in January and July. JoAL publishes manuscripts within the fields of: 1. Teaching and curricular practices 2. Language teaching methodologies, 3. Curriculum development and teaching methods 4. Second and foreign ...