in qualitative research, 2 qualitative data are collected in the form of words or picture rather than numbers, 3 qualitative researchers are concerned with process as
well as product, 4 qualitative researchers tend to analyze their data inductively, 5 how people make sense of their lives is a major concern to qualitative researches.
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A descriptive method will be applied in presenting the data, analysis, and its findings. This method is the most appropriate method because it will systematically
and factually describe and illustrate the characteristics and the connection between the phenomena studied.
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Therefore, the writer chooses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing this research.
2. Research object
This research aims to know what method that translator used in translating the bilingual book, Strawberry Shortcake Makeover Madness and The Butterfly Ride.
Besides, this research aims to describe and analyze the communicative translation which occurred in its translation.
3. Data analysis
The data of this study is the sentences from translation‟s result of the bilingual book, Strawberry Shortcake Makeover Madness by Samantha Brooke and The
Butterfly Ride by Amy Ackelsberg. The data will be analyzed in accordance with the theory of communicative translation by Newmark. In analyzing the data, the writer
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R. C. Bogdan and S. K. Biklen, Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction To Theory and Methods, Universitas Michigan: Allyn Bacon, Incorporated, 1982, p.37
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Gay. L. R, Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications, Ohio: Merill Publishing Company, 1987, p. 37
uses the following steps: firstly, collecting the communicative translation that occurred in the text. Secondly, compering the grammatical structure between SL and
TL, and then, presenting the data that has been found to be analyzed by using qualitative method which is relevant with the theory of communicative translation by
Newmark.
4. Research instrument
The writer will analyze each text that contain of communicative translation by using the theory of communicative translation by Newmark.
In this research, the writer will perform several stages: a Reading and comparing every dialogue to determine the communicative translations which are
employed by the translator, b identifying the data, c classifying the text that contain communicative translation, d analyzing the data, e presenting the result of
research.
5. Unit of analysis
The unit of analysis in this research are the translation of bilingual book, Strawberry Shortcake Makeover Madness by Samantha Brooke and The Butterfly
Ride by Amy Ackelsberg, published in 2011.
