Translation of Children‘s Rhyme Bible Storybook on ―The Creation" from English into Indonesian

Abstract

Foreign children‘s literature has been translated in various target languages and the most translated stories are from the Bible. The uniqueness of this study is in the rhyming text translation. It is challenging translating rhyming text due to distinct features of orality, sociocultural context, lexical and grammatical issues. This paper aims to 1) explore rhyme types found both in the source text and in the target text; 2) investigate the use of translation techniques; 3) examine the translation shift; and 4) assess the translation quality of the rhyming translated text. This is a qualitative descriptive study that applied a content analysis design. The collection of data is through focus group discussion, note-taking and quality translation (QT) rating instruments. Then data are analyzed using domain, taxonomy, and componential analyses. The findings present nine rhyme types identified in the source text and 10 rhyme types in the target text. Additionally, there are 12 translation techniques frequently used. Furthermore, 34 poems illustrate that the translation shift exists in the translated text. Finally, the assessment of translation quality reveals three aspects of the parameter, namely accuracy (2.22), acceptability (3), and readability (3) in which its overall score is 2.61. The overall score of the translation quality reveals that the translation meaningfully succeeds.