THE QUALITY OF ENGLISH TRANSLATION VERSION OF BILINGUAL BOOKS FOR PHYSICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
ABSTRACT: This article
discusses the quality of English translation of the course books of Physics, Economics,
and History for Junior High School students in Indonesia. The research which
becomes the base for the article is qualitative, conducted on five English
version texts of bilingual books for Junior High School students in Indonesia.
It selected one chapter of each book and analyzed the quality of its text structure
as well as its text texture. The data were in the forms of discourse units and
analyzed on the quality of the text structure and aspects of grammar quality
such as the grammatical construction of the clauses and the lexical choices of
the texts. In addition, it obtained data related to the readability of the
texts from twenty students who were selected randomly. The results show that
all of the English texts have good quality in their text structure. However,
the grammar and choice of words show a number of weaknesses in each text. Text
improvement should consider English grammatical rules and systems and
Indonesian language interference for English grammatical constructions, word
choice and technical terms.
Author: Djatmika, Agus Hari
Wibowo, Ida Kusuma Dewi
Journal Code: jpantropologigg140006
