Abstract:
This study is aimed at (1) describing students’ vocabulary mastery, to find out
the level of vocabulary mastery (2) describing the students’ translation ability, and (3)
determining the correlation between their vocabulary mastery and the translation
ability.
The population of the study is the eleventh grade students of SMK
Muhammadiyah Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. There are 40 students.
To take the data there are two test instruments, test of vocabulary mastery and
test of translation ability. The data analysis techniques involve the descriptive
analysis and shows that the students’ vocabulary mastery and the translation ability is
in the good category. The result of product moment correlation analysis shows that
there is a positive and significant correlation between the vocabulary mastery and the
translation ability. This can be seen from the value of r observed (r-o) between
students’ vocabulary and translate ability was 0.605. The r-o was higher than r-t
0.312. (0.605 > 0.312). There is a positive and significant relationship between their
vocabulary mastery and translation ability.
