NATIVE ENGLISH TEACHER EXAMINING BILINGUAL ESSAYS WRITTEN BY STUDENTS OF INDONESIAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION CLASS: THE CASE OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF PURWOREJO MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY

摘要

Nowadays the number of non-native English speakers exceeds the number of native English ones, so English is used to communicate among the non-native English speakers. As a consequence, English teachers should consider the phenomena of world Englishes. In this research the main problems is what corrections the native English speaker examining the bilingual essays written by students are. The native speaker is the English lecturer of ESL composition at the Ohio State University, and the subjects are the students of English Education Department at Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year of 2012/2013. The data is in the form of a number of bilingual essays written by students in accomplishing the task of Indonesian-English translation class. The analysis and interpretation employed is mainly the mixed method emphasizing on descriptiv equalitative research method. After examining, the native English teacher states that he is able to comprehend most of the essays. However, he finds that there are quite many sentences which are considered idiomatically unnatural for native speaker’s point of view. Such weaknesses occur especially due to the use of inappropriate words and idiomatic expressions.