Abstrak
The problem in this research is that the translation strategies used by students in translating academic texts. The purpose of this research is to identify translation strategies used by sixth-semester students of the English Teaching Department at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar in the 2024/2025 academic year. This research employed a qualitative approach with a descriptive design. This research applied a qualitative approach with a descriptive design. The informants were ten sixth-semester students who had taken translation courses, selected through purposive sampling. The researcher was the main instrument, supported by interview guidelines and a voice recorder. Data were collected through interviews, the checking of data trustworthiness using time triangulation, and analyzed through three stages: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The results of the study show that students used six translation strategies, namely literal translation, omission, paraphrasing using related words, machine translation, modulation, and transposition.