TERJEMAHAN KOLOKASI BAHASA INDONESIA KE DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS: STUDI KASUS DI UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH LUWUK BANGGAI

SITI RACHMI. The Translation of Indonesian Collocation into English: A Case Study at Universitas Muhammadiyah Luwuk Banggai (supervised by Abdul Hakim Yassi and Sukmawaty).

This research intends to identify Indonesian collocation that are translated inappropriately into English and describe the intervention of Indonesian students’ language in translating collocation into English. Qualitative method had been conducted. Some examples of Indonesian collocations were taken from online news related to its common usage. Indonesian and English dictionaries were used to analyze the data for considering meaning transparency and the patterns. This research found that 33 data were translated inappropriately by the students. The number of lexical collocation data got higher than grammatical collocation and was the most problematic. Besides, their translations of collocation represent the intervention of their point of language view. It shows collocation differences in word choice, usage, and patterns, but the meaning looks similar to English collocation.