Areas of Research Methods of the Study

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

A. Areas of Research

In this research, the researcher focused on the comparison of translation between target text and source texts. The researcher analyzed the data from aircraft safety manuals by using grammatical and semantical features. By focusing on the grammatical and semantical feature, this research aimed to focus on the sentence construction and the meaning of each word in SL and TL. Translation involved the textual comparison of translation from the Source Texts as an original source. This might deal with several translations, that might be understood by the readers of the Target Text. Not all topics could deal with every possible aspect of the texts. Thus the translator might choose what the closest or match with the original Chesterman, 2002:7. . The researcher aimed to find out the pattern of Indonesian translation in aircraft safety manuals. By finding the pattern, the researcher was able to emphasize the readability of aircraft safety manuals. As the result, this research aims to make the reader understand the meaning of aircraft safety manuals.

B. Object of the Study

The object of this research study was the Indonesian translation of aircraft safety manuals provided by three different aircrafts, which were Airbus A320-

200, Boeing 737-500, and ATR72-500600.

C. Methods of the Study

The methods used in this study were the combination of three kinds of research. Those were library research, explicatory research and survey research. Firstly, library research was done to find out the theory of translation, equivalence, readability, and method to determine the equivalence. Secondly, explicatory research focused on the equivalence that occured in the sentence of the aircraft safety manuals. By using this method, the researcher tried to find out the readability of the sentences. Thirdly, the survey research was used to find the ranking of the equivalence of Airbus A320-200, Boeing 737-500, and ATR 72- 500600 safety manuals through questionnaires. Furthermore, by using this questionnaire, the researcher tried to determine the rank of the equivalence of the aircraft safety manuals from Airbus A320-200, Boeing 737-500, and ATR 72- 500600.

D. Research Procedure 1. Types of Data