Ayu Permatasari , 2201415063 (2020) ERRORS MADE BY VOCATIONAL SCHOOL STUDENTS IN TRANSLATING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT: THE CASE OF 11TH GRADERS OF SMK AL ASROR SEMARANG. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The need of translation nowadays is very important because not all information has been covered in Indonesian yet. Vocational school students need to get more information written in English. That is why translation needed. The research aims to describe the kinds of translation errors are made by vocational school students in translating analytical exposition text from English into Indonesian. The method used in the research was descriptive qualitative. The subject of the research was the eleventh graders of Fashion Program of SMK Al Asror Semarang. An analytical exposition text consisting of 5 paragraphs (source texts) and all of its‘ translations in Indonesian (the target texts) were used in the research to find out the translation errors. Then the researchers classified them into 5 kinds of translation errors according to Vilar et al. (2006: 698). The results of the research revealed that there were 232 translation errors found in students‘ translation. There were translation errors in the form of incorrect word (60.3%), punctuation (26.3%), missing word (6.0 %), word order (5.2%), and unknown words (2.2%). In conclusion, the three most prominent error categories made by the students were incorrect word, punctuation, and missing word errors.

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