Analysis of Students’ Ability in Translation Writing on Recount Text

Abstract

Abstract

This study aimed to see how the quality of the English language of students in junior high school level in translating recount text. This research employed a case study adopting a descriptive qualitative approach. The participants in this study were tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Bengkulu Selatan. The samples were taken from 20 students from class X at SMAN 1 Bengkulu Selatan in Academic Year 2022/2023. The instruments used were observation, interviews, and writing. The results of this study indicated that there are still many students asking the teacher to translate the words they will wrote, using conventional writing, namely writing the full text in Indonesian first and then translating it into English still using the translation language from the translator tolls where students translate the words one by one. After the test conducted, it is found that there were 19 students were in FAIR category and only one student was in GOOD category. The mean of the test score was also 67.5 which means that in category of FAIR. It means that the student who passed the KKM was only one student while the others were lower than the KKM. Finally, it is suggested for students to improve their translation skills and to conduct research on larger scope.