THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE ABILITY OF READING AND TRANSLATING OF THE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY OF MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Filandasari. 2013. “The Correlation between The Ability of Reading and Translating of Eighth Semester Students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in Academic Year 2012/2013 ”.Skipsi :English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University.Advisor: (i) Drs. Suprihadi, M.Pd (ii) Agung DWINurcahyo, S.S, M.Pd Key Words: Reading Ability, Translation Ability, Eighth Semester Students of English Education Departement of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in Academic Year 2012/2013 One of four skills that must be mastered by English learners is reading skill. Reading is an activity of understanding the content of the text in order to get the information in it. After reading a text, mainly on other language texts, the continuous process of reading is translation. When we read a foreign language text, we must translate it first to know the meaning of the text. We cannot catch and grasp the idea from our reading as well as possible, if we can not translate the text as well. This research is aimed to find out whether there is a correlation between the reading ability and translation ability of the students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University or not. This research is done to find out whether there is a significant correlationbetween reading ability and translation ability of the students of English education department of teacher training and education faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013. The writer uses the correlation design. This research takes place at English Education Department,with the analysis of product moment. This research focuses on a correlation study between the ability of reading and the ability of translating of the Eighth Semester students of English Education Departement of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013. The result of this research implies that there is a significant correlationbetween reading ability and translation ability of the students of English education department of teacher training and education faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013.From the data, the writer found that index of rxy(Coefficient Correlation) is 0.79, It means that the correlation is substantial criteria. After this results is consulted with 5% level of significance for N is 25, it is found the value 0.396. so, the value of rxy is higher than the value of level significance. So, the hypothesis of this research (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. The conclusion of the research shows that there is a significant correlationbetween reading ability and translation ability of the students of English education department of teacher training and education faculty of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2012/2013