STUDENTS' ABILITY IN TRANSLATING NARRATIVE TEXT FROM ENGLISH TO INDONESIAN

Abstract

Learning a foreign language cannot be separated from the process of translation. Since the translation process is an integral part of foreign language learning activities, it is important to know how good the students' ability in translating text. Therefore, the researcher aimed to find out students' ability to translate narrative text from English to Indonesian at the English Language Education Study Program of Lambung Mangkurat University Batch 2017. The narrative text is chosen because it's one of the texts which are commonly read. The researcher used a descriptive quantitative approach for this research. The sample of this research was 69 students which were taken with total sampling technique.The samples were given the translation test to measure their ability to translate text. The result of this research showed that the average score of all the samples of this research was 59,15 and categorized as moderate translation ability. The translation ability from all the category found on the research were: moderate translation (65%), good translation (12%), bad translation (12%), excellent translation (10%), and very good translation (1%). It can be concluded that the students of English Language Education Study Program batch 2017 have moderate ability in translating narrative text.  The students are suggested to keep on improving their translation ability and use the mistakes found on the test as the references to improve their works. As for the lecturers, it is suggested that they help the students to improve their understanding of the context of the text.