Analyzing Students' Vocabulary Difficulties in Translating Indonesian Narrative Text to English

Nisak, Khairun Auliyatun (2025) Analyzing Students' Vocabulary Difficulties in Translating Indonesian Narrative Text to English. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH. Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Translating as a foundation required to understand foreign language is not
an ability that can be easily learned by people, it needs many aspects that must be
early mastered to produce better and qualified results. As happened to the students
of Foreign Language Development Institute, one of factors influencing their result
in translation is the vocabulary difficulties they face in translating the text,
especially the narrative text containing of complicated element in term of the
word equivalent used and written in the text.
Due to previous paragraph, this recent research had an objective to analyze
and investigate the students’ vocabulary difficulties in translating Indonesian
narrative text formulated by the following research questions: 1) what are the
vocabulary difficulties faced by Foreign Language Development Institute students
in translating Indonesian narrative text to English?, and 2) what are the reasons of
vocabulary difficulties of Foreign Language Development Institute students in
translating Indonesian narrative text to English?
This research used qualitative as the approach and descriptive design. The
chosen participant to be the research subjects were 5 students and 2 instructors of
Foreign Language Development Institute. The data was collected through three
technique kinds, covering: interview, observation, and documents review. The
obtained data were the analyzed by the help of data analysis belongs to Miles et
al., containing of activities such as data condensation, data display, and
conclusion drawing and verification. Source and technique triangulation used for
validating the data in data validity.
In the end of research, the obtained findings revealed that: 1) the students’
vocabulary difficulties involved: a) the difficulty to translate the vocabularies that
the students had previously never met, and b) the difficulty to determine several
past forms of the vocabularies such an irregular changing word like verb and
noun. 2) The reasons of vocabulary difficulties referred to: a) students’ less
vocabulary and low understanding on the vocabularies, and b) students’ tendency
not to be motivated to learn new and more various vocabularies that will be used
to translate the Indonesian narrative text to English.
Keywords: Students’ Vocabulary Difficulties, Narrative Text, Translating
Indonesian to English.

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