The Level of Students’ Ability in Translating Report Text from Indonesian into English at Universitas Negeri Padang

Abstract

Translation is an ability that has to be mastered by the students especially to translate report text from Indonesian into English. Report text is one of the genres that should be translated by the students. It aims to analyze students' ability in translating report text. Translating report text is also one of forms in translation class. Translation ability has an important role in increasing students' ability in translating Indonesian into English. Based on the explanation above, this study had a goal in order to determine the students' translation ability in translating report text from Indonesian into English. Furthermore, the subjects of this study were English Education Department students of Universitas Negeri Padang. This study was descriptive research to describe and analyze the existed condition in the field. This study was conducted by translation test to gather students' translation ability to translate report text from Indonesian into English. As a result of the study, the test of translation ability was identified and classified based on several indicators. It consisted of accuracy, acceptability, and readability. From the analysis it is revealed that there were three students' level is good, only one student gained fairly good level, and the other three students obtained almost good level, and also three students obtained fair level, while no one students obtained poor level.In conclusion, in general that the students' ability to translate report text is fairly good.