Open AccessTextual Error Meaning in English to Indonesian Translation of EFL Class
Author(s) -
Dedy Subandowo,
Eva Faliyanti,
Yuli Triatmi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jet (journal of english teaching) adi buana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2614-4050
pISSN - 2502-2121
DOI - 10.36456/j.v4i1.1884
Subject(s) - indonesian , adverb , meaning (existential) , linguistics , class (philosophy) , conjunction (astronomy) , noun , verb , subject (documents) , computer science , test (biology) , error analysis , mathematics education , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , paleontology , philosophy , physics , astronomy , library science , psychotherapist , biology
This research addresses on textual error meaning of English to Indonesian translation in EFL class. This study is aimed to describe the frequency of error distribution and to investigate the dominant errors made by students in English to Indonesian Translation. The subject of this research is the fourth-semester English education students at the Muhammadiyah University of Metro. There are 37 students used as the total sampling technique to get the sample. To collect the data, the writer used a test as the instrument, i.e. an essay test. The collected data are analyzed by means of error analysis which starts from collecting the data, identifying the errors from the answer sheet, classifying and describing of errors on each type and finally tabulating the students' errors. The finding shows that frequency of errors made by the student in translating English into Indonesian can be classified into 73.43% of verb, 85% of noun, 52.7% of adverb and 100% of conjunction. On the other hand, the common error in translating textual meaning occurs in conjunction class which the average is 100%. It is the biggest percentage of all the errors which is automatically be the dominant error of textual meaning in this research