THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ TRANSLATION ABILITY AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT MTS UMMATAN WASATHAN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY RIAU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

This research was correlational research. It was conducted to find out the
significant correlation between students’ translation ability and their reading
comprehension ability of eighth grade at Mts Ummatan Wasathan Islamic
Boarding School Of Technology Riau. There were two variables used in this
research. The first was X variable (translation ability) and the second was Y
variable (reading comprehension).

The subject of this research was the eighth grade students of MTs
Ummatan Wasathan Islamic Boarding School of Technology Riau, while the
object of this research was translation ability and reading comprehension. The
instruments used in this research were test. For translation ability, the researcher
asks the students to translate 1 narrative text. For reading comprehension, the
researcher used written test in form of multiple choice. The population of the
research was 57 students. Then, in taking the sample, the researcher used total
sampling by taking the population as the sample.

By using product moment formula through SPSS 16.00 in analyzing the
data, the researcher found that r null was 0.946 and the r table was 0.235 at the
level of 5% and 0.306 at the level 1%. In other words, r null is higher than r table
either at 5% or 1 % level (H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted). In conclusion, there
is a significant correlation between students’ translation ability and their reading
comprehension of the eighth grade at MTs Ummatan Wasathan Islamic Boarding
School of Technology Riau.
Keyword: Correlation, Translation Ability, Reading Comprehension.

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