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C. Method of The Study
The methods used in this study are library and explicatory research. Library research is used to get theories and information in order to get the
understanding and gain knowledge about this topic. Explicatory research is applied because this study focuses on one single major text that is medical text. It
aims to find out translators’ significant differences in translating medical text, translators’ competence and to prove whether the background of the translators
influence the result or not. It is done by asking two respondents having different background to translate medical text. Since it is a comparison study, both results
are compared and analyzed to solve the problem formulation in this current study.
D. Research Procedure
1. Types of Data
a. Objective Data
There are two objectives used in this research. The first one is medical text taken from article entitled “Prenatal Factors in Singletons with Cerebral Palsy
Born at or near Term”, taken from The New England Journal of Medicine. This article is written by Karin B. Nelson, M.D., and Eve Blair, Ph.D.. Actually, this
text consists of seven pages 40 paragraphs, but to make it practical and make the respondents enjoy translating the source text, only the firsts three paragraphs are
used to test them. This journal was published on September 3, 2015. The second is the medical text above that had been translated by the respondents. It is used as
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b. Genetive Data
The target text data were obtained from two respondents having different background. The first one is an English Letters Department student of Sanata
Dharma University. He was in the seventh semester when data collection was conducted. He had taken Vocabulary, Structure I, II, III. IV, and V, Translation I,
II, and III. The second one is medical school student coming from Diponegoro University. Like English Letter student, she also came from the same batch. In her
study she was only given basic English, but in her daily life she read a lot of English books such as novel and medical books.
2. Data Collection
The data in this research were obtained through respondents. First, the source text were read for several times to choose which phrases, clauses and
sentences that might be used and problematic. The terms that might rise problems were marked to make it easy to be analyzed.
After the text was ready to be used, students targeted to be respondents were asked whether they were willing to participate in this research or not. After
the agreements were made, two respondents were given Source Text ST. They asked ST to be sent by e-mail because it would facilitate them in translating the
ST. The respondents were asked to translate the text from ST into TT. They
were given three days to return the translation. The rules applied in translating ST were that respondents were free to open any kind of references
such as printed dictionary, books, article or journal relating to this topic, except machine
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