A CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TRANSLATION ABILITYOF THE FOURTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATIONPROGRAM OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITYOF PURWOREJOINTHE ACADEMICYEAR2013/2014

Abstract

This thesis is intended to describe A Correlation Study between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their English-Indonesian Translation Ability of the Fourth Semester of English Education Program of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the Academic year 2013/2014. It is aimed to find out whether or not there is a positive and significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their English-Indonesian translation ability. The population of this research is the fourth semester students of English Education Program of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. The whole population consists of 217 students. By using technique of Simple Random Sampling, 54 students were taken as the sample. In collecting data, the researcher uses documentation as a method. The documentation of the result tests was used to know the students’ vocabulary mastery and their english-indonesian translation ability. Furthermore, the data were analyzed by using Product Moment Formula manually and SPSS 16.0. The result of this study shows that there is a positive and significant correlation between the students’ vocabulary mastery and their English- Indonesian translation ability, since it was found that the result of rxyis 0.605, while rtable is 0.268. It means that there is a correlation between variable x and variable y, since rcounted>rtable.The result also shows that the level of significant correlation is high.Therefore, the researcher’s hyphothesis with 0.95 or 95% of significance level is accepted and consequently null hyphothesis (Ho) is rejected.