An Error Analysis on the TRANSLATION of English Noun Phrases into Indonesian of the Fifth Semester Students of the English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language and people have a close relationship because the development and growth of language walk together with the development of people’s lives. They use language to express their thoughts, ideas, feelings, attitudes, and experiences. It means that language is used to communicate to each other. As a means of communication, language allows people to say things and express their communicative needs. Catford (1964: 1) defines language as a type of patterned human behavior. It is a way, perhaps the most important way, in which human beings interact in his social situations.
Language as a means of communication is very important, so people have to master it. As human and technology grow, it is impossible to fulfill all human needs without interacting with other people that have different social conditions, cultures, and of course, language. People must learn not only their mother tongue, a language which only functions in the family or area where they live, but also an international language used in international world, that is, English.
Related to its function as an international language, English plays a great role in the world. English has been stated to be used as an international language and popular to the countries all over the world. It is used even as a national language of several countries in the world. English is a foreign language in Indonesia and it is very important in the globalization era. In our country, Indonesia which is a developing country, English takes even a more important role.
People need English to reach what modern countries have achieved such as technology and science. People are expected to be proficient in both written and spoken English. Therefore, people are encouraged to learn English, and even they want their children to start learning English from early ages like in the kindergarten. In order to be able to use English, we should learn the form language skills and language elements. Language skills consist of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Language elements consist of sound, meaning, and rules.
Indonesian is our national language. It is used in our daily communication. Unfortunately, not all information has been covered in Indonesian yet. We need to get more information from books written in English. College students will get in touch with English sentences more frequently than they did in the senior high school. That is why translation is needed. Translation is very crucial in the process of exchanging information. Without translation, prospective scientists will be left behind in following the development of science, moreover if they lack the ability to read the foreign language text (Widyamartaya, 1989: 9).
Many experts have translated of literary works in Indonesian version. It means that the people who do not understand English can also read the literary work in their own language. To make a good translation is not easy for the translators. They are faced by many problems either linguistic or non linguistic. .......(Baca Selengkapnya)
