ABSTRACT

Mayadhita, Fadya Awrie. 2021. The Problems in Translating English Acronyms to Indonesia by English Language Education Study Program Students of Lambung Mangkurat University. Sarjana’s Thesis, English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, LambungMangkurat University. Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Dr. Rina Listia, M. Pd., the second advisor: Yusuf Al Arief, M.Hum.

Keywords: Problems, Translation, Translating English Acronym.

            Generally, the translation of foreign acronyms is not very difficult in comparison with the difficulties found in the translation of other types of lexicon.The difficulties found in translating acronyms lie not so much in their content, in obtaining a monosemantic value for their constitutive lexerries, as in deciding in each case whether an acronym is translated or not and which form it would have.Since there are no related study about problems in translating English acronyms into Indonesian in English Language Education Program Study of Lambung Mangkurat University, the researcher aimed to find out students’ problems in translating English acronyms to Indonesia at English Language Education Study Program of Lambung Mangkurat University.

The researcher used descriptive qualitative approach for this research. The sample of this research was47English Language Education Study Program students.To obtain the data, researcher used questionnaire and interview. The samples were given questionnaire and being interviewed. From the data obtained, researcher classified the problems based on the questionnaire.

The result of this research showed that there were 34% students who have problems in English translation proficiency. There were 68% students who have problems for their English vocabularies. There were 63% students who have problems for their Indonesian proficiency and 69% students who have problems for their Indonesian vocabularies.

It can be concluded that there are 3 main problems faced by the students of English language study program batch 2017 who already took the translation subject, such as, lack of English vocabularies, Indonesian language proficiency in translating, and lack of target language (Indonesian) vocabularies.