Abstract:
The objective of the research is to describe the problem faced and to find out dominant problem faced at the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017.
This research is a qualitative research and used descriptive qualitative method. The researcher obtained the data from the students’ translation test. The researcher carried out at SMP N 4 Purworejo on April 2017. To collect the data, the researcher needed some steps, they are took one of three narrative text from the textbook, the research choose one narrative text, teaching simple narrative text and give the translation test. Then, to analyze the data, the researcher collects data by theory of translation problem, the researcher analyze students’ problem in translating English narrative text into Indonesian, and the researcher making conclusion.
The result of the analysis shows that are the most frequent problem which students made is vocabulary. The highest number of students’ problem is vocabulary (45.87%). The second is not transmitted (22.94%). The third is incomplete sentence (19.27%). The fourth is addition (9.17%). And the last is grammar (2.75%). It can be concluded that students have translating some problems in English narrative text into Indonesian is vocabulary, not transmitted, incomplete sentences, addition, and grammar. The most dominant problem faced done by the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 is vocabulary.
