CHAPTER III METHODS OF INVESTIGATION
In this chapter, the method of investigation of this study would be discussed. It includes research approach, object of the study, role of the researcher, type of
data, procedures of collecting data, and procedures of analyzing data.
3.1 Research Approach
The research approach used in this study was descriptive qualitative approach. The reason for this was that the result of the study was in form of words or
phrases and involved no number or calculation. In this study, the writer looked for the lexical non-equivalence in the translation of a newspaper article by the
English Department students of Semarang State University in academic year 20092010. The descriptive qualitative approach was used in this research to
identify and classify the lexical non-equivalence of the translation. This kind of approach was also useful for analyzing the possible causes and strategies could be
used to avoid making the lexical non-equivalence in translation.
3.2 Subject of the Study
The subject of the study of this research was the English Department students of Semarang State University in academic year 20092010. They were the students
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of English Department of eight semester who had taken the translation class. The reason for this was the English Department students, especially those who had
taken the translation class, were expected to have good skills in translating. However, as students, they might still face difficulties in finding lexical
equivalence in translation, especially while translating a newspaper article. Hence, this research was conducted to analyze the result of their translation and find out
the problems they face in finding lexical equivalence.
3.3 Object of the Study
The object of this study was the collected data. It was the translation result which had been done by the subject of the study. There was only one type of text that
was a newspaper article. It meant that all the subject study translated the same newspaper article. The writer used no variation in the newspaper article used in
order to get valid and comparable data. The data then was analyzed by the researcher in order to gain the finding of the research. The researcher analyzed the
whole translation, since the data in this study was the words and phrases in the given newspaper article entitled
“MUI Rules Out Fatwa against Facebook over Cartoon
”, which was taken from www.thejakartapost.com
on May 21, 2010.
3.4 Role of the Researcher
