A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH COMPOUND – COMPLEX SENTENCE INTO INDONESIAN (A CASE STUDY OF THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF udABA ST. PIGNATELLY IN SURAKARTA)

摘要

The purposes of this research are to know the students’ competence in udtranslating English compound complex sentence into Indonesian done by the udstudents of ABA St. Pignatelly and to find the difficulties faced by the fifth udsemester students of ABA St. Pignatelly in translating English compound-udcomplex sentence. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. udThe data of this study are the result of student’s translation and the data source is udtest given to the students containing 25 English compound-complex sentences. In udthis research the writer takes the fifth semester students of ABA St. Pignatelly in udSurakarta as respondent. The methods of collecting data used in this study are uddocument and interview in this study. udThe result of the research show that firstly, the students competence in udtranslating is fair. The writer finds that from 750 data, there are 379 or 50,53% is udcorrect answer and 371 or 49,47% is incorrect answer. Secondly, the writer finds udthe problems faced by students in translating English compound-complex udsentence are limited vocabulary, word-for-word oriented, students seldom use udcompound-complex sentence and the students did not adjust the meaning of word udwith context. ud