Abstract
This research focuses on translation and language errors discovered in English-Indonesian translation results. This study aims to investigate the types of errors mostly made by Indonesian novice translators. The data were obtained from translation practice assigned to undergraduate students, who were taking the compulsory basic translation course. The respondents, who were native Indonesian speakers, were asked to translate two paragraphs from a given text in class for one hour and send their translations to the raters via email. The raters then marked the errors in the students’ translations using the 2021 ATA’s Standardized Framework for Error Marking. The results of the study show that the most frequent errors made by the participants were spelling and terminology errors, which might be simply caused by sloppiness or by the participants’ lack of knowledge of the proper official Indonesian spelling system and which could be due to their ignorance of the proper terms.
Bahasa Abstract
Penelitian ini berfokus pada kesalahan penerjemahan dan bahasa dalam terjemahan dari bahasa Inggris ke bahasa Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meneliti jenis-jenis kesalahan yang sering dibuat oleh penerjemah pemula Indonesia. Data didapatkan dari latihan menerjemahkan yang ditugaskan kepada para mahasiswa semester 6 yang wajib mengambil mata kuliah Dasar-Dasar Penerjemahan Umum. Para responden yang semuanya orang Indonesia diminta untuk menerjemahkan dua paragraf suatu teks yang diberikan di kelas dan dikerjakan selama satu jam, dan mereka mengirimkan terjemahan mereka ke penilai melalui email. Para penilai kemudian menandai kesalahan dalam terjemahan mahasiswa dengan menggunakan rubrik dari ATA (American Translators’ Association – Himpunan Penerjemah Amerika) tahun 2021. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kesalahan tersering yang dibuat oleh peserta adalah kesalahan ejaan dan terminologi, yang mungkin disebabkan oleh keteledoran atau kurangnya pengetahuan peserta akan sistem ejaan Indonesia yang resmi (EBI – Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia) dan dapat disebabkan oleh ketidaktahuan mereka akan istilah yang tepat.
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Recommended Citation
Dewi, Haru D, and Andika Wijaya. 2025. TYPES OF STUDENT TRANSLATION ERRORS IN ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TRANSLATION. Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya 15, no. 1 (April). 10.17510/paradigma.v15i1.1497.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT: TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH TO INDONESIAN
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