THE TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSURANCE (TQA) ON THE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC TEXT TRANSLATION: A CASE STUDY OF EFL LEARNERS

Abstract

This study dealt with translation quality assurance on students‟ academic text translation without using translation applications. The objectives of the study were to measured the translation quality of students and also to defined the difficulties experienced by students in translating an academic text without using a translation application. The data in this research were obtained from the result of students‟ translations and the students‟ answers of the questionnaire on a Google form. This research applied a mixed method. In doing this research, the quantitative data were analyzed based on descriptive statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics 24, and the qualitative data were informed of the student‟s results of translation analyzed by the scale of the assessed quality aspects on accuracy, acceptability, and readability. The data source in this study was an academic text entitled “4 Reasons Why You Should Use Social Media in Education” and a web-based questionnaire. The data focused on measuring students' translation quality assurance from academic text and the difficulties of students in translating the academic text. From the data obtained, students got less accurate, acceptable, and readable categories in translating the sentences in academic text and there were some difficulties experienced by the students in translating the text.