Siti Roihanah , 2211411051 (2016) INDONESIAN TRANSLATION QUALITY ON KIDS’ SONG LYRICS IN BARNEY AND FRIENDS THE EMPERORS’CONTEST EPISODE. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This research focuses on the analysis on the translation quality of kids’ song lyrics in Barney and Friends the Emperors Contest episode. It is about children televison program from America which contains drama and song. The object of this study are to find out the accuracy, the acceptability, and the readability of the translation of the kids’ favorite songs which are translated in Indonesian. Theory of translation quality which the researcher used is from Nababan, he assesses the quality of translation by three aspects. They are accuracy, acceptability and readability. This is descriptive qualitative research. Descriptive research is a procedure of problem solving by describing the subject or the object of the study based on the visible facts. Qualitative research does not deal with the testing of a theory or hypothesis, but it deals with understanding of theory. The result of the study found that in the term of accuracy, there were 127 data (78.52 %) were accurate, 28 data (17.2 %) were less accurate, and 8 data (4.28 %) were inaccurate. In the term of acceptability, there were 157 data (96.32 %) were acceptable, 1 data (0.62 %) was less acceptable, and 5 data (3.06 %) were unacceptable. In the term of readability, there were 126 data (77.3 %) were readable, 16 data (9.82 %) were less readable, and 21 data (12.88 %) were unreadable. Finally, the translator should be aware in translating a text. They should know there are some points that must be completed to make a good translation. It is hoped that this research would be useful for English Department Students to give references about translation quality studies and knowledge and benefit for the readers who has interesting in translation quality studies.

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