The Analysis of Idiomatic Expression in Bidirectional Texts of Children Stories “Ceritarakyat Bali” and “the Little Mermaid”: an Introduction of Idiomaticex Pression to Children

English can also be learnt from childhood. In learning English the children can read the bilingual stories. Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary (1995)--bilingual story is a story which are expressed or written in two languages, BI-directional book stories (English-Indonesian; Indonesian-English) are very interesting ways for children in learning English and Indonesian. In the children stories, there are numerous of idiomatic expression, which are found, in this case it is very interesting to introduce the idiomatic expression to children in order to enrich their knowledge about language, thus this study will be conducted to explore the translation strategies of the translator in translating the idioms in the BI-directional children stories in order to be understood easier by the children as the target reader. Since in the stories entitled “Cerita Rakyat Bali” and “The little Mermaid” show numerous idiomatic expressions which are needed as the data to be analyzed, so they are chosen as the data source