This document outlines the course content for a translation subject. It will cover translation theory, strategies, and techniques. Students will learn how to translate different text types such as narrative, descriptive, argumentative and expository. They will practice translating texts and analyzing translations based on techniques and methods discussed in class. Assessment includes a midterm test on theory and individual translation, and a final test on additional theory and a group translation project. The goal is to provide students with skills in both understanding and applying translation principles.

1. Translation
Subject Coverage
Prof. Dr. Rudi Hartono, S.S., M.Pd.

2. Subject Description
• The course is designed to provide students with basic
theory and practice of translation. The theory covers
the notions of translation, translation strategies, unit
of translation, translation shifts, analysis of meaning,
dynamic equivalence and the receptor of the message,
textual pragmatics and equivalence, translation and
relevance, text type in translation, text register in
translation, text, genre and discourse shifts in
translation, agents of power in translation, ideology
and translation, and translation in the information
technology era what are implemented to
(mechanically) translate narrative, descriptive,
argumentative, and expository texts.

3. Meeting 1
Definitions of Translation

4. Meeting 2
Translation Techniques

5. Meeting 3
Translation of Narrative Texts
• Translating
• Analyzing

6. Meeting 4
Translation of Descriptive Texts
• Translating
• Analyzing

7. Meeting 5
Translation of Argumentative Texts
• Translating
• Analyzing

8. Meeting 6
Translation of Expository Texts
• Translating
• Analyzing

9. Meeting 7
Textual Equivalence in
Translation

10. Meeting 8
Midterm Test:
1.Doing the test of translation
theory (Part 1: Meeting 1-7)
2.Translating one of various texts
individually

11. Meeting 9
Translation Methods
• Eight Translation Methods (Newmark,1988)
1. Word-for-word Translation
2. Literal Translation
3. Faithful Translation
4. Semantic Translation
5. Adaptation
6. Free Translation
7. Idiomatic Translation
8. Communicative Translation

12. Meeting 10
Translation Techniques
18 Translation Techniques (Molina &
Albir, 2000)
• Translating various texts based on
translation techniques
• Analyzing various texts based on
translation techniques

13. Meeting 11
Translation Techniques
18 Translation Techniques (Molina &
Albir, 2000)
• Translating various registers based
on translation techniques
• Analyzing various registers based
on translation techniques

14. Meeting 12
• Translating various genres
based on translation
techniques

15. Meeting 13
• Analyzing translation of various
genres based on translation
techniques

16. Meeting 14
Translation Ideology
• Foreignization
• Domestication

17. Meeting 15
Translation Technology
• Linguistic Problems of Translation
• Stylistic Problems of Translation
• Machine Translation
• Translation Applications
• Translation Tools

18. Meeting 16
Final Test:
1.Doing the test of translation
theory (Part 2: Meeting 9-15)
2.Translating one of various texts
in a small group (a group of two
or three)