The correlation between translation ability and reading comprehension of The English Education Students UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan

Siregar, Meli Handayani (2023) The correlation between translation ability and reading comprehension of The English Education Students UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the correlation between students' translation ability and reading comprehension of English Education students UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan. The students' problem in this research were: 1) The students had problem in understanding the text, 2) The students had low vocabulary, 3) The difference of structure English and Indonesian made the students difficult to translate the text, 4) The students got difficult in getting the real meaning of the text. The purposes of this research were to know the students’ translation ability, to know the students’ reading comprehension and to find out the correlation between the students' translation ability and their reading comprehension. The kind of this research was quantitative research with correlational method. The population of this research was all the seventh semester students of UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan. The sample of this research were 60 students or all the population from two classroom TBI-1 and TBI-2 taken by using total sampling technique. Further, the instrument of this research used for collecting the data were an essay test and test in multiple choice forms. To analyze the data, the researcher used Product Moment formula and t-test by using SPSS V.26. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the mean score of variable X was 63.13 which means in good category and mean score variable Y was 69.43 which means in good category. Further, for the correlation, the score of rxy was more than r-table (0.239>0.214) in level significant 5%. It was shown that there was the correlation between translation ability and reading comprehension in low correlational category. Based on the result of t-test, it was known that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected, because the result of tcount is higher than ttable (1.875>1.671). It means that there is significant correlation between students’ translation ability and students’ reading comprehension of the English Education students UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan.

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