Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)

Linguistic Errors Made by Students of English Education Program in Translating Indonesian Language into English

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Julian Chandra, Irna Wahyuni
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Julian Chandra
Available Online 11 March 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.200306.058How to use a DOI?
Keywords
lingustic errors, grammartical errors, syntactical errors, morphological errors, phonological errors, lexical errors
Abstract

The study was aimed at describing what linguistic errors that English education program students made in translating Indonesian language into English. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. Research participants were 19 sixth semester students of English education at STKIP YDB who took translation subject for academic year of 2018/2019. The research instrument was translation test derived from the students’ translation midterm examination which comprised translating 15 Indonesian sentences into English. The data were analyzed using error analysis by Ellis (1997) involving such steps as (1) collecting the samples/data, (2) identifying the errors, (3) classifying the translation errors, (4) explaining the errors, and (5) evaluating/interpreting the errors. The results of the study revealed that the main linguistic error that the students had in translating Bahasa Indonesia into English was in lexical aspect. It was found that lexical error comprised 53% of total errors. For grammar and syntactical aspects, it was found that both contained 18% of total errors made by the students. For morphological aspects, it was found that only 7% of total errors was made. For the linguistic problems in phonological aspects, it was 3,9% of total errors. It can be concluded language acquisition of these students in the linguistic component of English as a foreign language was inadequate in the act of translating, especially in the level of “lexicon” (vocabulary and choice of words), grammar and syntax.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 March 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.058
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200306.058How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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