THE QUALITY OF ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TRANSLATION MADE BY THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT FBS UNM

Asrianti. 2017. The Quality of English – Indonesian Translation Made by the Fifth Semester students of English Department at FBS UNM. A Thesis. Faculty of Language and Literature State University of Makassar. (Supervised by Mansur Akil and Amirullah) This thesis aims at describing about the quality of the students’ translation from English into Indonesian. The research questions consist of major question and minor question. The major question is: How is the students’ translation quality in translating English text into Indonesian? The minor questions are: 1) How accurate is the translation of English into Indonesian text? 2) How clear is the translation of English into Indonesian text? 3) How natural is the translation of English into Indonesian text? The researcher employed descriptive method. The population of the research was the fifth semester students of English Department at FBS UNM in academic year 2017/2018 and cluster random sampling technique was applied to get class A English Education as the sample. The result of the data analysis shows that the translation quality of the students in translating English – Indonesian text is very low by having 0.302% as the average score. The accuracy, clarity, and naturalness are equally poor. The accuracy is 1.0%, clarity is 5.6%, and naturalness is 0.9%. Based on the result of the analysis, it was concluded that the students have low quality in translating English into Indonesian text. Most of the translations were grammatically incorrect, semantically unclear, and pragmatically artificial