TY - JOUR AU - Jepri, Jepri PY - 2018/02/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING CULTURE-SPECIFIC TERMS JF - Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature JA - Prologue VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS DO - 10.36277/jurnalprologue.v3i1.15 UR - https://prologue.sastra.uniba-bpn.ac.id/index.php/jurnal_prologue/article/view/15 SP - AB - <p>This research is the study of the difficulties faced by students of semester V <br>faculty of Letters, Balikpapan University in translating a culture-specific<br>text from English to Indonesian Language. The research is qualitative; data<br>collecting is done by distributing the text contains American culture of<br>baseball sports to translate and interviewing students to identify their<br>difficulties. From the result, it is concluded that the difficulties faced by<br>students in translating the texts is caused by their lack of understanding of<br>the Source Language culture, in this case , the baseball sports, their poor<br>knowledge of the sport itself and their low experience in reading a<br>discourse from the same context. It is recommended for translation subject<br>lecturer to provide students a broad knowledge of the cultural context of<br>source language to help them improve their translation skills. </p> ER -