An Analysis of Linguistic Errors Made by EFL’s Adult Learners in Translating English into Indonesian language

Authors

  • Julian Chandra STKIP YDB Luuk Alung
  • Irna Wahyuni STKIP YDB, Padang, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v3i1.375

Keywords:

Grammartical errors, Syntactical errors; Morphological errors; Phonological errors; lexical errors

Abstract

The study was aimed at describing what linguistic errors namely, grammatical, syntactical, morphological, phnological and lexical errors that English education program students made in translating Indonesian language into English. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. Research participants were 19  sixth semester students of English education at STKIP YDB who took translation subject for academic year of  2018/2019. The research instrument was translation test derived from the students’ translation midterm examination which comprised translating 15 Indonesian sentences into English. Data was analyzed through error analysis in which was proposed by Ellis (1997) involving  steps such as (1) collecting samples / data, (2) identifying the errors, (3) classifying translation errors, (4) explaining the errors, and (5) evaluating / interpreting the error.

            The results of the study revealed that the main linguistic errors that the students had in translating Bahasa Indonesia into English was in lexical  aspect. It was found that lexical error comprised  72,8% of total errors. For grammar and syntactical aspects,  it was found that both contained 12,% of total errors made by the students. For morphological aspects,  it was found that only 3,1% of total errors was made. For the linguistic problems in phonological aspects, surprisingly it was found 0% of total errors . It can be concluded language acquisition of these students in the linguistic component of English as a foreign language was inadequate in the act of translating, especially in the level of "lexicon" (vocabulary and choice of words), grammar and syntax.

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Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

Chandra, J., & Wahyuni, I. (2019). An Analysis of Linguistic Errors Made by EFL’s Adult Learners in Translating English into Indonesian language. Jurnal Ilmiah Langue and Parole, 3(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v3i1.375