Conclusions CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter consists of the conclusions, implications, and recommendations. The conclusions deal with the major summary of this study. The implications provide a reference to the involvement of this study in English education. The recommendations are given to future researchers to conduct further studies on this topic and to language learners to make use of this study.

A. Conclusions

This research was a study of Anthony Reid’s Australia and Indonesi a’s Struggle for Independence O’Hare Reid, 2005. The book was written in English and translated into Indonesian. The study focused on the strategies for translating transitive verbs found in the first chapter of the book. Two research problems were formulated in order to conduct the study. The first research problem dealt with transitive verbs and their translation found in the book. The second research problem dealt with strategies used to translate the transitive verbs. There were two major theories used in this study. The theories proposed by Kolln 1990 and Newmark 1988 were employed to solve the research problems. The transitive verb patterns Kolln, 1990 were employed to find out all English finite transitive verbs in the first chapter of the bilingual book. 58 Newmark’s theory on translation strategies was employed to find out strategies to translate the transitive verbs. Based on the research results, there were 170 transitive verbs found in the first chapter of the book. The verbs were recognized as transitive because all of those verbs employed the transitive verb patterns. There were 146 transitive verbs constructed with the pattern 1 NP 1 -Vt-NP 2. The verbs understand, have, and were not settled were taken as data representative to discuss. There were also 10 transitive verbs constructed with the pattern 2 NP 1 -Vt-NP 2 -NP 3 . The verbs gave and were given were discussed. There were also transitive verbs constructed with the pattern 4 NP 1 -Vt-NP 2 - NP 2. Based on the research findings, 14 verbs employed this pattern. The verb saw and was elected were taken as the examples of data. The second research problem dealt with translation strategies. The identification of the strategies to translate the transitive verbs was based on the theory proposed by Newmark 1988. Not all strategies proposed by Newmark 1988 were found in this study. There were only five out of 21 strategies, namely literal translation, paraphrase, transposition, naturalization, and synonymy. Literal strategy, as an example, was used to translate the verb understand into mengerti . The verb had was paraphrased into tidak suka by considering the context in which the verb occurred. The verb told in the active voice in the source language SL was translated into target language TL diberitahukan by employing transposition strategy. Naturalization was used to translate the SL verb vetoed 59 into TL verb memveto. Synonymy was employed to translate the SL verb harrier into TL verbs mengganggu dan menyusahkan .

B. Implications