Loan Words Used in the Students‟ Translation of English into Indonesian

Abstract

The research deals with English LoanWords in English text. As the problems of this research allow “What characteristics of loan words are used by the students in translating text from English to Indonesian?, and Which characteristics of loan words is the most dominant found in the students‟ translation?”The scope of the research is limited to study the English LoanWords in English DescriptionText of the students at FKIP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar.This research are expected to be useful for the English Translation Lecturer an English Vocabulary Lecturer who taught Translation Subject and Vocabulary Subject to increase their knowledge about English LoanWords which are borrowed from English, beside that it also useful to the readers who want to get some information about English LoanWords especially in DescriptiveText.To solve this problem above, the writer intends to use the theories of Molina and Albir(2002:520), Catford(1965:20). The data were collected and analyzed based on the 2 characteristics of LoanWords according to Molina & Albir(2002), which are Pure LoanWords and Naturalized Loan Words. And the result percentage of the problem: Pure Loan Words is 73,33%, and Naturalized Loan Words is 26,67%. Loan words from English have enriched Bahasa Indonesian vocabularies, not only in spoken but also in written language.