This is to certify that the Sarjanas thesis of Eny Rachmawati has been

approved by the thesis advisors for further approval by the board examiners.
Gresik, 16 September 2011
Advisor I

Slamet Asari, M.Pd

NIP.1970082020050110011

Advisor II

Rohmy Husniah, M.Pd

NIP.0431.0603.129

This is to certify that the Sarjanas thesis of Eny Rachmawati has been
approved by the board of examiners as requirement for the degree of Sarjana
in English Language Education.

......................................................... , Chair
Dr. Khoirul Anwar, M.Pd

......................................................... , Member
Slamet Asari, M.Pd

......................................................... , Member
Rohmy Husniah, M.Pd

Acknwoledged by
Head, English Department

Approved by
Dean, Faculty of Teacher Training
and Education

Yudhi Arifani, M.Pd

NIP.197610022005011001

Slamet Asari, M.Pd

NIP.197008202005011001

MOTTO AND DEDICATION

My life motto:
A wise man always finds his way. ~ me myself
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the
earth. ~ Chinese Proverb
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a
thousand reasons to smile. ~ Unknown
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you
weep. ~ Carl Sandburg

I dedicated this thesis to:

My beloved husband and kids
My beloved parents
My beloved parents-in-law
My lovely youger sister
All IECs crew
My beloved lecturers and the staff

ABSTRACT
Rachmawati, Eny. 2011. Students Mastery in Translating Technology Article
entitled Dubais Rotating Skyscraper. A thesis submitted as partial
fulfillment the requrements for the Sarjana degree of English
Education Department. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
University of Muhammadiyah Gresik. Advisors: (I) Slamet Asari,
M.Pd, (II) Rohmy Husniah, M.Pd
Keywords: technology article, students mastery, ability
The writer is interested in the study of Students Mastery in Translating
Technology Article entitled Dubais Rotating Skyscraper. Hence the research
question was formulated as follow: How is the students ability in translating
technology article entitled Dubais Rotating Skyscraper The writer used
descriptive qualitative research in doing this study. The writer described the
students ability by analyzing their translation using one of the standard of
translation assesments.
The subject is 6th semester of English Department students in University
of Muhammadiyah Gresik. Moreover there were two research tool used in this
study. They were test and observation.
The writer conducted the study during July 2010 after translation class.
The research found that more than half of students have good ability in
translating technology article entitled Dunais Rotating Skyscraper, even
more less quarter of the students have poor ability.
From the discussion of the study, the writer concluded that the finding of
this study has contrary with Smiths theory (1996). Based on the previous
study, it also concluded that there are some differences in translating short story
and translating technology article. Finally, based on this study, to have
acceptable translation in technology article, students should made through
substruction as the structural procedure and also modulation, omission,
borrowing and synonim as semantic procedure

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First of all. I praise Alhamdulillah hirobbil alamin to Allah SWT
for His merciful and graceful gift in my life. He also gives me spirit to finish
my study. I give my great gratitude to my dearest advisors, Mr.Slamet and Ms.
Rohmy, also the chairman, Mr. Khoirul for the helpful suggestion, advices,
motivation, patience, during the advisory period until the completion of this
thesis.
I also give my great gratitude to Mr. Yudhi Arifani as the Translation
lecturer. He gave me valuable experience and knowledge
I dedicate my deepest love and sincere to my beloved parents and
parents-in-law for their kindness and love. Thanks also to my sister, kids and
my husband for his support, pray and help. I also want to say thanks to all of
my colleague in IEC and my friends whose names I cannot mentioned detail
here. I will not forget our togetherness and happiest moment.

Gresik, September 6, 2011

Writer

TABLE OF CONTENT

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APPROVAL SHEET ..............................................................................
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ................................................................
ABSTRACT .............................................................................................
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .......................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENT ...........................................................................
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION .....................................................
1.1 Background of the Study ....................................
1.2 Problem Statement .............................................
1.3 Purpose of the Study ..........................................
1.4 Significance of the Study ...................................
1.5 Scope and Limitation .........................................
1.5 Definition of Key Terms ....................................
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE .................
2.1 Definition of Translation ....................................
2.2 Type of Translation ............................................
2.2.1 Scientific Translation ...............................
2.2.2 Literary Translation ..................................
2.2.3 News Translation .....................................
2.2.3.1 Definition of Article ....................
2.2.3.2 Types of Articles .........................
2.2.3.2.1 News Articles ...............
2.2.3.2.2 Text Articles ................
2.2.3.2.3 Spoken Articles ...........
2.2.3.2.4 Listicles .......................
2.3 Translating Process ............................................
2.4 Translation Procedure ........................................
2.4.1 Structural Procedure .................................
2.4.2 Semantic Procedure ..................................
2.5 The Indicator of Qualifed Translation ...............
2.5.1 Definition of TQA .....................................
2.5.2 A Compositional Tool ...............................
2.5.2.1 Target Language ...........................
2.5.2.2 Textual and Functional Adequency
2.5.2.3 Non-Specialized Content ..............
2.5.2.4 Specialized Content .......................
2.6 Recent Study .......................................................
CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY .....................................................
3.1 Design of the Study ............................................
3.2 Population and Sample .......................................
3.3 Instrument of the Study ......................................
3.3.1 Rubric .......................................................
3.3.2 Triangulation ............................................
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FINDING AND DISCUSSION .................................
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ......................
4.1 Conclusion .........................................................
4.2 Suggestion ..........................................................
BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................
APPENDICES TRANSLATION COURSE OUTLINE .....................
ENGLISH VERSION ARTICLE ..............................
INDONESIAN VERSION ARTICLE .......................
PROOFREADERS PROFILE ..................................
PERNYATAAN KEASLIAN TULISAN .................
LIST OF AWKWARD STUDENTS TRANSLATION ...
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