The Correlation Between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Students’ Ability in Translation at the Fifth Semester Students of English Department of IAIN Langsa

This final project is about the correlation between the students’ vocabulary mastery and their ability in translation among the fifth semester students of English Department of IAIN Langsa. The basic problem the researcher wanted to discuss in this final project was the importance of vocabulary mastery among the fifth semester students of English Department of IAIN Langsa in order to develop their skills, especially in translation ability. The final project had several objectives, which were to find out the level of vocabulary mastery of the fifth semester students of English Department of IAIN Langsa, to find out their translation ability, and to find out whether there is a correlation between the students’ mastery of vocabulary and their translation ability. The population of this final project was the fifth semester students of English Department of IAIN Langsa and it was about 69 students. The researcher took 30 students as the samples by applying random sampling technique. After conducting the research, the researcher found that the average score of the students’ vocabulary mastery was 63.2, that was in fair level. Likewise, their translation score was fair referring to their average score, which were 70.77. Moreover, the result of data analysis using SPSS shows that the correlation coefficient between the two variables (vocabulary mastery and translation ability) is 0.749, while the critical value for 30 samples and 95% confidence is 0.361. Since the correlation coefficient obtained (0.749) is higher than the table value (0.361), it means that there is a significant positive correlation between the two variables and the correlation is considered to be substantial.