demikian, ada sesuatu di sana,
sesuatu yang terasa nyata, dan aku tak
sanggup berpaling
In which: 1
: The number of data ST
: Source Text TT
: Target Text A
: Affection Category 27
: The number of page in the ST novel 46
: The number of page in the TT novel Some related books and studies are also used in order to get the scientific
theories for the translation strategy and acceptability indicator and scoring system.
The second activity done in this research was distributing questionnaires to the ten respondents. The questionnaire was purposed to check the
acceptability of theIndonesian version of Dear John by using the acceptability indicator and scoring system theory.
3. Population and Sample
The population of this study was the romance elements found in Nicholas Sparks‟ Dear John. The total of romance elements data found in the novel were
55 data,thereforesampling was needed. The population of the romance elements was divided into three categories. The first and the most widely category was
“affection”, which was 30 data; the second category was “endearment”, whose amount 16 data; while the last was “passion”, with 9 data.
This research used two sampling theory, which were proportional and purposive. The population was 55 and it was divided into three catageories,
wh ich were “affection”, “endearment”, and “passion”. Each category was taken
proportionally by 10:5:3 ratio. Therefore, 10 data of “affection”, 5 data of
“endearment”, and 3 data of“passion” were taken as the sample for the questionnaire.
The purposive sampling, as stated byWidodo in his Cerdik Menyusun Proposal Penelitian Skripsi, Tesis Disertasi, used when the choice of sample
is based on the characteristics or certain feature based on the characteristics of the population 2012:58. In order to do the purposive sampling, reviewing the
population to estimate the acceptability of each datum would be needed. The purposive sampling was no longer based on the categorization, but it emphazised
on getting the 18 data for the questionnaire with the appropriate ratio.
4. Data Analysis
To validate the result, this study had three steps to conduct the reaserch. The first step was reading and highlighting. Both of the English version novel
and Bahasa Indonesia version were being read, and the parts of romance elements are highlighted.
The second step was by collecting all of the data and assesing the acceptability of each datum. Using the appropriate ratio between the
acceptability and unacceptability, the researcher made the questionnaire to distribute. Below was one example of the questionnaire,
