摘要：In this research, the problems are what is the tendency made by the fourth yearstudents in translating gesture with non-verbal communication and what are thestudents reasons in choosing the tendency. The aims of why the writerconducted a research about this is because the writer would like to find out thetendency which is made by fourth year students in translating gesture withnon-verbal communication and to find out the students reasons in choosing thetendency. In arranging this research paper, the writer used a quantitativeresearch, which is to find out the percentage of the tendency in translatinggesture with non-verbal communication and use a survey to find out thepercentage of it. The results of this research are the tendency which is made byfourth year students in translating gesture with non-verbal communication isimplicitly and the students reasons in choosing implicit gesture implicitlybecause reason c: the readers can still understand the meaning of intendedgesture with the percentage of 31,2%, reason d: Indonesian language systemallows a meaning to be expressed by gesture with the percentage of 27,5%,reason b: the intended meaning of this gesture has the same meaning inIndonesian with the percentage of 26,9%, reason a: this translation doesnt ruinthe intended meaning of the source text gesture with the percentage of 13,1%,reason e: others with the percentage of 1,3%. From the degree of the percentageabove we can see that the highest reasons which are chosen are reason c (31,2%)and followed by reason d (27,5%). Both of those reasons indicate that thestudents are familiar and comprehensible about the meaning of intended gestureso that they translate implicit meaning of gesture with non-verbalcommunication implicitly.
