An investigation on correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their translation ability of the second year students of senior high school was
conducted to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their translation ability.
Finally, the writer hopes that the result of this investigation will give the answer to the problem above.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
Vocabulary mastery is considered to be important. Vocabulary is used in almost all of our daily life activities related to reading, writing, speaking, even
listening. Vocabulary mastery is said to play an important role in translation process.
The translation process involves at least two language cultures, a variety of domains of definition and the problematic intervention of a translator. Some
students still think that translation is a difficult process since they are sure that they are not capable enough to do the job of translating and they still lack of
vocabulary. The reasons why the writer chooses the topic are:
1
It is important for the eleventh graders to master their vocabulary in order to develop their skills.
2
Students want to express something in English but they do not know how to express the word appropriately because of lacking of vocabulary.
3
Students will be confident enough to do the translation jobassignment because their mastery of vocabulary is good enough.
1.3 Research Questions
The problems that will be discussed in this study are: 1
What is the correlation between students’ mastery of vocabulary and their translation ability of the second year students of senior high school?
2 Is the correlation between students’ mastery of vocabulary and their
translation ability of second year students of senior high school positive and significant?
1.4 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of the study are as follows: 1
To find out the level of vocabulary mastery of the second year students of SMA Negeri 1 Blora.
2 To find out the translation ability of the second year students of SMA Negeri
I Blora. 3
To find out the correlation between students’ mastery of vocabulary and their translation ability of the second year students of SMA Negeri 1 Blora.
1.5 Significance
By conducting the research about the correlation between students’ mastery of vocabulary and their translation ability, I hope that the result of the research
will be useful to give some contributions to English language teaching and learning, i.e.:
1 For students: the finding of the research will motivate them to practice more
than they did before and encourage them to learn English by improving their vocabulary mastery through some fun ways. In addition, by improving their
vocabulary mastery, they will be able to increase their translation ability. 2
For teachers: the result of the research will be useful as a reflection in order to increase and develop their method in teaching students about vocabulary
relating to its importance in their ability in translation. 3
For other researchers: the finding of the research hopefully can be useful as the source of their reference and it is also useful to inform the readers about
the correlation between students’ mastery of vocabulary and their translation ability of the eleventh grades of SMA Negeri 1 Blora.
1.6 Statement of Hypothesis
