A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL MASTERY AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION TOWARD THEIR TRANSLATION APPROPRIATENESS OF ENGLISH TEXT INTO INDONESIAN AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNGHATTA UNIVERSITY
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Abstract
The goal of this research was to find out the correlation between students’ grammatical mastery and their reading comprehension toward their translation appropriateness of English Text into Indonesian at the third year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University.
The number of population was 56 students. There were distributed into two classes; A and B. The researcher took a class as sample by using cluster random sampling technique. The selected class as sample was class B. The researcher gathered the data by using grammar test to measure students’ grammar mastery, reading to measure students’ reading comprehension and translation test to measure students’ translation appropriateness of English text into Indonesian.. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Double Correlation Formula.
The result of analysis showed that 66.70% students had moderate ability in grammar, 63.89% students had moderate ability in reading and 69.44% students had moderate appropriateness in translation. The coefficient correlation index between students’ grammatical mastery and their translation appropriateness of English text into Indonesian and between students’ reading comprehension and their translation appropriateness of English text into Indonesian and between students’ grammatical mastery and their reading comprehension was 0.73, 0.74 and 0.97 respectively. It was classified as very high correlation. The coefficient of three variables was 0.74 and f counted was 16.50 and f- table was 3.27. It means that f counted (16.50) was bigger that f table (3.27).
Based on the result above, the grammatical mastery and reading comprehension can influence the translation appropriateness of English Text into Indonesian and suggests the lecturers to review the teaching material and give more exercises about grammar, reading and translation. For the students, the researcher suggests to learn and to do more exercises about grammar, reading and translation.
Keywords: Grammatical Mastery, Reading Comprehension and Translation Appropriateness