EFL COLLEGE STUDENTS PROCESS OF TRANSLATING NON- ACADEMIC TEXTS FROM INDONESIAN INTO ENGLISH A Case study at a Translation Class

Abstract

This paper focuses on examining students' process in translating non-academic text. This paper has three research questions: 1) How do the students translate Indonesian-English non-academic text in translation class?; 2) What challenges did the students encounter during translation class and how did they solve the challenges?; 3) What kinds of translation error in Indonesian-English text generated by student in translation class?. The researcher used qualitative descriptive as the research design. Five students of a private teacher training college were the participants of the study. To obtain the data from the participants, the researcher used interviews and document analysis as the instrument of the study. The findings showed that: 1) students have different ways in translating non-academic text: 2) students had difficulties during the translation process from their grammar or vocabulary, if students found words that were difficult to understand students would use google translate, u-dictionary, are still ambiguous sentences students can paraphrase them grammatically: 3) students who did the translation and had different ways, some of which understood word for word or sentence sentences and some directly used the translation application, students also experienced errors when translating such as errors in the grammar section.