THE TECHNIQUE IN THE TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH INTO INDONESIAN ABSTRACTS

Abstract

This reserach aims to investigate the types of translation techniques and to find out what translation
techniques are commonly used in abstract translation. This research used qualitative research methods
and descriptive research design. Data were taken from 6 abstracts from 3 educational journal articles.
The 6 abstracts consist of 3 abstracts in English as the source language and 3 abstracts which have
been translated into Indonesian as the target language. It was found that the translation techniques
used in this study were transposition (14 data or 51.85%), amplification (4 data or 14.82%), borrowing
(4 data or 14.82%), reduction (3 data or 11, 11%), and established equivalence (2 data or 7.40%). In
addition, from this research, it was also found that the most frequently used translation technique is
the transposition translation technique.