An Analysis Of Student’s Ability In Translating Thesis Abstract At Management Department In The Faculty Of Economy University Of Muhammadiyah Gresik

Non-English Department students in the end of the study will need to create an abstract in English.  As  the  students  who  do  not  learn  English  extensively,  they  have  difficulties  in translating  abstract  from Indonesia  to English.  Therefore,  in their thesis  abstracts  are usually found some errors. This research has an objective to find the common errors committed by the students in translating thesis abstract. In this research, there were  three main steps to find the result,  first,  the  researcher  gathered  the  documents  and  listed  the  errors  committed  by  the students, then compared the errors to find the common one and the last, analyzed the students translation  to find the average ability of  the students  in translating  thesis abstract.  The result showed the common errors in translation were caused by the difference of language pattern of source language and target language.