The Students’ Problems And Strategies In Translating English Compound Words Into Bahasa Indonesia

Abstract

This study deals with the students’ problem and strategies in transling English compound words into Bahasa Indonesia. The objective of the study are to find out the causes of the students’ problems to translate English compound words into bahasa Indonesia and to find out how to solve the students’ problems to translate English compound words into bahasa Indonesia. This research was conducted at Class VII MTS Al-Jami’iyatul Wasliyah Tembung that was located in Jl. Besar Tembung No. 78 Lingkungan IV Tembung Kecamatan Percut Sei Tuan North Sumatra. The reason for choosing this class because the researcher ever mad the interview and observation in this class and it is found that the students have problems in translating translating English compound words into Bahasa Indonesia. The research found that the total score from the correct answer is 567 and incorrect answer is 233. Then, the average score from the corrected answer is 14,18 and incorrect answer is 5,83. The most dominant problem made by the student was 86 or 69,91% that we can see the table above. It means that so many students made problem of tenses in answering translating English compound words into Bahasa Indonesia. The percentage for the types of problems were th problem of do knot understand meaning found 80 or 34,33%, then the problem of grammar was found 67 or 28,76%, and the last problem of tenses was found 86 or 36,91%.