Melati, . (2020) The Analysis of the Students’ Difficulties in Translating an Argumentative Text from English to Indonesian at the Eleventh Graders Students of SMA Kartikatama Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The aim of this research is analyze of students’ difficulties in translating argumentative text from English to Indonesian which was observed and analyzed from students at eleventh grade of SMA Kartikatama Metro Academic Year 2020/2021. This research method is a qualitative research. The researcher used a descriptive research method, which use description and explanation to the data of the research.

The subject in this research were 9 students. The data of this research were collected by the documentation of students translation text and questionnaire. To find out and describes the difficulties of students, the researcher used analyzing and concluding the students translation text. The instrument of this research was the argumentative text, as a key instrument using the student translation text and the table of questionnaire.

This research result shows that students find it difficult to understand the meaning of the source language so it makes it difficult for them to translate it into the target language as the difficulties in linguistic factor, this case is caused by the lack of the vocabulary and the knowledge and understanding about translation is still less. And 77.8% or 7 of 9 students is difficult in translating words related to medical values as the difficulties in non-linguistic factor. It can be concluded that students’ difficulties in linguistic factor was more prominent than the non linguistic factor.

Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Translating, Argumentative Text.

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