JETL (Journal Of Education, Teaching and Learning)
Vol 3, No 1 (2018): Volume 3 Number 1 March 2018

The Analysis of Errors in Translation of Scientific Text from English to Indonesian Language

Mardin Silalahi (Simalungun University)
Zainal Rafli (State University of Jakarta,)
Yumna Rasyid (State University of Jakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Mar 2018

Abstract

This study aims to find errors in the translation of scientific texts from English into Indonesian. This research uses the qualitative method with content analysis approach. The results showed that (1) the translation strategy, the majority of students used semantic strategy, especially modulation in translating scientific texts and at least used the special structural strategies of addition, (2) lexical error, the majority of students made formal lexical errors in word selection and the least (3) morphological errors, the majority of students make mistakes in the affixation field of improper use of affixation and the least of which are affixations that are not broken, (4) syntactic errors, syntactical errors found in the translation of scientific texts in the fields, phrases, clauses and sentences but the majority of students make mistakes in the field of sentences are the use of illogical phrases and the fewest errors in the field clause is the addition of auxiliary verbs in the equational or nominal clause, and the separation of the perpetrator (subject) and the word in the active clause, (5) the factor causing errors in translation ie the majority of students do not understand the source language text and the least of which is the quality of the source language using the incorrect grammatical, the sentence is vague, the idea is not coherent and many fungtuations.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JETL

Publisher

Subject

Aerospace Engineering Education Social Sciences

Description

Journal of Education, Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed scientific open access, with e-ISSN : 2477-8478 and p-ISSN 2477-5924 published by Institute for Managing and Publishing Scientific Journals at STKIP Singkawang, Indonesia in 2015. In Last 2016 Journal of Education, Teaching and Learning ...