CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. The Description of Data
The data in this research include the data of English grammatical ability and the data of translating text ability from English into Bahasa Indonesia and
vice-versa. Those data are obtained through the questionnaire in the form of test, followed by 30 respondents of the sevent
h semester’s students who took the translation course at English Letters Department, Faculty of Adab and
Humanities, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Furthermore, the data of English grammatical ability and translating text ability can be seen as follows:
1. The data of English grammatical ability
The data of English grammatical ability are the total scores of students in English grammatical ability test table 3.1. The scoring is 2.5 for each correct
answer and 0 for the wrong answer. The writer analyzed and processed the data with SPSS 16. The data description can be seen in the following tables:
Table 3.1 Scores of Students’ English Grammatical Ability Test
No. Interval Students’ Score
Frequency f 1.
2. 3.
4. 5.
6. 45-52
53-60 61-68
69-76 77-84
85-92 2
9 8
8 1
2
Total 30
The descriptive statistics of grammatical ability test appendix 5 shows the numbers of respondents N are 30. Based on 30 respondents, the lowest score
Minimum is 45 and the highest score Maximum is 87.5. Range is the range score between maximum and minimum score that is equal to 42.5 and Sum is the
total score of 30 respondents that is equal to 1928. The average score Mean of 30 respondents is 64.25 with Standard Deviation of 10.342.
2. The data of translating text ability
The data of translating text ability are the total scores of students in translating text ability test from English into Bahasa Indonesia and vice-versa.
The range score of this test is 000-100. If both of texts are translated correctly, students will obtain a score of 100. The writer analyzed and processed the data
with SPSS 16. The data description can be seen in the tables below:
Table 3.2 Scores of Students’ Translating Ability Test
No. Interval Students’ Score
Frequency f 1.
2. 3.
4. 5.
6. 50-55
56-61 62-67
68-73 74-79
80-84 5
6 5
8 5
1 Total
30 The descriptive statistics of translating ability test appendix 6 shows the
numbers of respondents N are 30. Based on 30 respondents, the lowest score Minimum is 52.5 and the highest score Maximum is 80. Range is the range
score between maximum and minimum score that is equal to 27.5 and Sum is the total score of 30 respondents that is equal to 1968. The average score Mean of
30 respondents is 65.58 with Standard Deviation of 7.759.
B. The Analysis of Data
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