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1.6. The Scope of the Study
The scope of the study will cover the participants and the delimitation of the study. The participants of the study are the students of the third class of one
Madrasah AliyahMA Islamic Senior High School in Bandung. The reasons for choosing the participants at this school is that they meet the criteria for the
purpose of doing this research Alwasilah, 2006. The reasons are; 1 they are the students of MA, a similar school in which the researcher teaches, 2 the
accessibility and coorperativeness. The English teacher studies at the same university as the researcher which makes it more accessible, 3 the students are
very cooperative, and 4 the consideration of financial effectiveness. While the reason for choosing the third students is that they are going to face the national
final examination.The study will be delimited to the results of students’ translation tasks. The study limits itself and focuses on the methods, strategies,
and difficulties in translating English texts into Indonesian. There are four kinds of texts used in this study which can be seen in Appendix 1.
1.7. The Definition of Key Terms
To make it easy for readers to understand the key terms, this research will then provide explanation with respect ot some important terms in the study
as follows: 1. Difficulty refers to the state of quality of being hard to do or to understand;
the effort that something involves Oxford Learners’ Dictionary. 2. Translating refers to the act of process of transferring meaning of a text from
one language into another.
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or spoken expression of the meaning of a word, speech, book, etc, in another language Concise Oxford English Dictionary in Hatim and Munday:3.
4. Text is any form of written material; the main printed part of a book or magazine, not the notes, pictures, etc Oxford advanced Learner’s
Dictionary. 5. Strategies are the procedures the participants employ in translation and to
solve problems Newmark.
1.8. The Organization of the Research
This research will be organized into five chapters, each of which consists of the points to be discussed. Chapter I discusses the burning issues of the
research which leads to the interest of this study. This part will be followed by the identification of the problems, the purpose of the study, significance of the
study, and the scope of the study, the definition of key terms. Some concepts adopted for the study is discussed in chapter II. This
chapter also discusses the previous study undertaken by others on similar issues. In this part, some theories about translation are explored. Chapter III explains
the way the researcher carries out the research. It covers the research design, research site, research participants, subjects and objects of the study, research
data, technique of collecting the data, and the analysis of the data. Chapter IV focuses on the research findings in which it covers the
analysis of the students’ translation, factors that make their difficulties to do translation tasks, their strategies, and the problems in translating an English text
into Indonesian. This chapter also attempts to answer all the questions presented
10 in chapter I. Finally, the conclusion and some recommendations about ways to
improve the quality of translation are presented in chapter V. This chapter will present a guidance for a further research.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1. Introduction
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