AN ANALYSIS OF EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATING BATAKNESE PANTANG LARANG AT THE FIFTH-SEMESTER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ UNIVERSITY OF MARITIME RAJA ALI HAJI

Abstract

This research aimed to found out students’ translation equivalence. The form of this study is descriptive qualitative research. The subject of the study was the fifth-semester English Department Student University of Maritime Raja Ali Haji Tanjungpinang. The researcher used translation test as an research instrument. Based on the result, the students’ categorized into quite equivalent translation. It can be seen from the mean score of the students was 1.95 from 20 sentences.