THE UTILITY OF COMPENSATION STRATEGIES IN THE SENTENCE LEVEL-TRANSLATION PRACTICE

Abstract

ABSTRACT
In the translation practice, the ability in translating some words appropriately
from the source language into the target language become a challenge for students. Most
students have some difficulties to find out an exact word which should be translated in
the translation. The students need to utilize strategies in solving the limitation of
knowledge during the translation practice. One of those strategies which comply and
support the students is compensation strategies. It consists of six kinds strategies that
can be used to keep the translation going. This paper is aimed at describing the utility of
compensation strategies represented in the sentence-level translation practice.It assists
the students to use a similar word, switch to Indonesian, linguistic clues, other clues in
the translation. Therefore, this strategy need to be considered as one of strategies that
overcome the limitation of their knowledge in translation practice.
Keywords:Compensation strategies, the sentence-level translation