DULAY’S SURFACE STRATEGY TAXONOMY ON THE SELECTED TEXTS OF THE BILINGUAL BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK: A STUDY OF ERROR ANALYSIS IN TRANSLATION

Abstract

In learning something, people make errors. Errors happen in a lot of things, such as in learning a foreign language. This study concerns to find out the errors on the bilingual Biology book which is written by Nunung Nurhayati. The analysis is based on Dulay’s theory with Surface Strategy Taxonomy focus. The research objective is to analyze errors on the book and to reconstruct the sentences in the correct one. This is expected to help correcting the errors on the book. There are some techniques to analyze the errors. First step is to analyze the sentence by using the basic constituents of a sentence. Then, the types of each sentence are determined. After that, the errors are analyzed and classified by using Surface Strategy Taxonomy. Finally, the errors will be corrected, and then the sentences will be reconstructed by using Nida’s three stages system of Translation process. The data are the selected sentences which are taken from the book on each chapter. It uses both documentary and random data as the method of data collection. In addition, this research is a quantitative and qualitative research. Furthermore, the result of this research proves that there are errors found in the book in which misformation is the most frequent error among those of Surface Strategy Taxonomy.