The Analysis of Students’ Mastery in Grammatical Equivalence Found in Students translating Indonesian Sentences into English One at Eleventh Grade of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

Grammar is the study of the classes of words that include the whole system and structure of a language in general. The differences grammar system between English and Indonesia may result in translation changes. Therefore, grammatical equivalence in translating the two languages is very important to achieve closest meaning. The aim of this research is to analyse of students’ mastery and seek in what level of Eleventh grade students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in grammatical equivalence. In collecting data researcher use valid instrument that is essay test. In analysing the data the researcher uses descriptive qualitative data analysis. The result shows that the average of students’ mastery get 80% . The researcher finds it belongs to excellent criteria. The finding shows there are 20(67%) respondents got excellent level, 10(33%) respondents gained good level and 0(0%) respondent result in fair level. To make students’ translating in Indonesia to English is equivalence in meaning and structure, the researcher suggests that the teacher to evaluate their way in teaching translation especially about grammatical equivalence, so the student can avoid make same omission.