specific expression in forms of phrase, clause, or sentence related to romance that was used in the English version of Dear John and how that certain idiom
was translated into Bahasa Indonesia.
C. Method of the Study
The methods applied to conduct this study were both library and field research. This study utilized library research method in order to get some related
studies and collect theories from books, journals, and former theses. This method was aimed to provide strong and scientific evidences, so that this study
would be qualified. The field research was done by distributing questionnaire to four
respondents. The questionnaire was used to check the accepatability of the romance elements translation by Barokah Ruziati, and the four respondents were
all the English Letters students. The data in this study were the primary data. Those were collected
directly from the English version Dear John novel and its Bahasa Indonesia version. No datum taken from former studies or journals.
D. Research Procedure
1. Types of Data
a. Objective Data
The objective data in this study were Nicholas Sparks‟ Dear John English
version as the Source Text ST, and Nicholas Sparks‟ Dear John Bahasa Indonesia version translated by Barokah Ruziati as the Target Text TT. The
English version of Dear John consisted of 276 pages, while theIndonesian version had more pages, which were 387 pages.
There were 55 romantic elements data that would be analyzed in this study. All of those were in the forms of sentences.
Below was the cover of Dear John, both in English version left and in Bahasa Indonesia version right.
b. Affective Data
The affective data for this study were taken from ten respondents. The questionnaire of acceptability was given to each of those ten respondents. The
respondents were around 18 – 46 years old. This range of age is chosen due to
the readers category for Nicholas Sparks‟ novel, which was from late teenage
until adult. All of the respondents have various background, such as, students, workers, and also housewives, since this novel‟s genre is romance fiction, which
is a general topic for many readers, then, the writer tried to get the respondents from people in general, for example, it is not only a college student, but also a
housewife. The respondents are all native speakers of Bahasa Indonesia, therefore, some of them such as the workers and students, have good
