Students’ Difficulties In Translating English Descriptive Text Into Indonesian ( A Case Study at the Fourth Semester Students of English Language Education)

This research is entitled “Students’ Difficulties in Translating English Descriptive Text into Indonesian (A Case Study at the Fourth Semester Students of English Language Education)”. It can be seen that this is qualitative research and the aim of this research are to know students’ difficulties, and how students overcome the difficulties. The method used in this research is a qualitative method. The sample was 7 fourth Students of English Language Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. They were selected randomly by using purposive sampling. The finding indicates that The students faced many difficulties in the descriptive text in the translation process. The difficulties they got were the different patterns of the source language, unfamiliar vocabulary, the high level of the text, grammatical meaning, and the culture of the text. To overcome these difficulties in the translation process, there were 5 strategies mostly used by the participants. They were as follows; translation by using Dictionary, exercising word for word translation, by using free translation, by more general word and translation by paraphrase using related word. It was easy to understand the content of the descriptive text when they used these translation strategies.