Translating from English into Indonesian: Which techniques to teach EFL students to be professional translators?

Mustafa, Faisal; Kholid, M. Ridho

doi:10.15548/jt.v26i2.521

Cited by 2 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Some of the methods proposed were literal translation, replacement, and free translation (Triyono, 2019). Regarding the technique or method in a translation process, research conducted by Mustafa & Kholid (2019) showed that there were some of the most dominant techniques used by a translator in translating English (source language) into Indonesian (target language) to achieve equivalence or naturalness of the translation works. These techniques were amplification, reduction, transposition, borrowing, modulation, and literal translation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Word equivalence of the bilingual storybook translation

Amalia¹

2022

diksi

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Equivalence is a very important factor and an inseparable part of a series of translation activities. Equivalence occurs when the linguistic units in the source language have the same meaning when it is transferred into the target language. This study aimed to describe (1) the translation difficulties in achieving word-level equivalence, and (2) the strategies in achieving word-level equivalence. The data sources were excerpts of words, phrases, and sentences from the bilingual storybook with the title Qonita dan Peternak Ayam - Qonita and The Chicken Breeder written by Setiawan G. Sasongko. Document observation was used as the data collection technique, meanwhile content analysis was used as the data analysis technique. The analysis of strategies and difficulties in translation were based on the theory of Baker (2011) and Newmark (1991). The results of the study indicated that the translation of bilingual storybook mostly used a word-by-word and free translation strategy to achieve word-level equivalence. The results of the analysis also revealed several types of difficulties in achieving the word-level equivalence. Those were differences in word forms, differences in the purpose and level of use of certain forms, cultural special concepts, and the absence of subordinate elements in the source language. Meanwhile, the strategies to overcome the difficulties found in achieving word-level equivalence were to eliminate certain words and to utilize more general words. Keywords: translation process, word equivalence, translation strategy, word translation, free translation

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Word equivalence of the bilingual storybook translation

Amalia¹

2022

diksi

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Omission is frequently found in translated versions into Indonesian to achieve naturalness. In translating magazine articles, omission is used avoid redundant information because it has been implied in previous sentences or phrases (Mustafa & Kholid, 2019). However, this translation technique was infrequently used in translating the smartphone user manual.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There have been many studies on the translation techniques used in translating texts from English into Indonesian, such as translation of magazine articles (Mustafa & Kholid, 2019), novels (Aziz, 2015), web pages (Kamil, 2014), and tourism news texts (Ariyaningsih & Santika, 2018). However, translation of a technology manual book is underresearched.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translation techniques used in translating a smartphone user manual

Mustafa

Aziz

Khabri

2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As many smartphones are imported from overseas and the user manuals are written in English, the translation of a user manual is, therefore, very important for the Indonesian customers whose English is not their second language. Good translation results are then very essential in order that the customers understand the information easily and clearly. The focus of this research is the bilingual English-Indonesian Samsung’s GT-19500 user manual. This research aims to find translation techniques applied in the book. In this descriptive research, the sentences were the tokens that were recorded in Microsoft Excel. The tokens were then analyzed based on the categories of translation techniques in question. It was found that there were nine translation techniques used in the user manual. The translation techniques used in Samsung’s GT-19500 user manual are borrowing (41%), literal translation (25%), calque (13%), transposition (7%), equivalence (6%), adaptation (5.3%), modulation (3%), and omission (2%). Therefore, the techniques used in translating a smartphone user manual are unique to this type of document because the document consists of many terms without Indonesian equivalence.

show abstract

Translating from English into Indonesian: Which techniques to teach EFL students to be professional translators?

Cited by 2 publications

References 26 publications

Word equivalence of the bilingual storybook translation

Word equivalence of the bilingual storybook translation

Translation techniques used in translating a smartphone user manual

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About