A Study on Translation Strategies and Translation Quality of Dubbing from English into Indonesian in the “Band Geeks” Episode of Spongebob Squarepants

Irwansyah. English for Business and Professional Communication Study Program. A Study on Translation Strategies and Translation Quality of Dubbing from English
into Indonesian in the “Band Geeks” Episode of SpongeBob Squarepants.

This study examines the translation strategies and translation quality of dubbing from English into Indonesian in the “Band Geeks” episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Using a descriptive qualitative method, the study aims to identify the translation strategies applied to the dubbed Indonesian translation based on Metin Tekin (2019)’s theory and to describe the translation quality based on Nababan et al (2012)’s theory of dubbing into Indonesian. The data consists of 100 sentences explicitly containing at least a subject and a predicate. The results show that the dominant use of
translation strategies is Exact Translation, followed by Replacement strategies. This suggests that the translator aimed to strike a balance between preserving the original
meaning and adjusting it to the Indonesian language. In terms of translation quality, the accuracy was found to be less accurate with a score of 2.33, while the acceptability was acceptable with a score of 2.99, indicating the use of common terms in Indonesia.

Keywords: dubbing; SpongeBob Squarepants; sentences; translation strategies; translation quality