The correlation between simple present and translation ability of The Grade XI Students SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat

Tambunan, Ali Musbar Nauli (2023) The correlation between simple present and translation ability of The Grade XI Students SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is intended to investigate the correlation between simple present tense mastery and translation ability of the XI grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat. The student’s problem in this research were: 1) the students felt difficult in simple present tense mastery, 2) the students do not interest in translation ability, 3) the students are lazy to open the dictionary, 4) the students lack vocabulary. The purpose of this research is to examine the students simple present tense mastery of the grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat, to examine the students’ translation of the grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat, to find whether there is or is not the significant correlation between simple present tense mastery and translation ability of the grade XI students’ SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat. This research used quantitative research with correlational research type. The population of this research was 50 students from the class of XI IPA 1 and IPA 2 SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat. The sample of this research are 50 students or all population from two classrooms of XI IPA 1 and IPA 2 and taken by using total sampling technique. Further, the instrument of this research was by giving multiple choice test and essay form translation ability. To analyze the data, the researcher used Product Moment formula and T test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 74.63 and mean score of variable Y was 68.63. Besides, the score of rcount was more than rtable 0.437>0.312. The result showed that there was no significant correlation between the two variables. It means the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was any significant correlation between simple present tense mastery and translation ability of the grade XI students’ SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Barat in enough category.

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