E Jami’ati, , 2201407202 (2011) The Use of Translation in Improving Students Reading Comprehension (An Action Research to Grade VIII Students of SMP N 24 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2010/2011). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

People around the world communicate each other by using spoken and written language. Translation will be very important when people get much information written in foreign language. Here, the Indonesian readers of English text do translation to understand the ideas. So, there is a close correlation between translation and reading comprehension. The translation ability shows the reading comprehension level. This final project aims at teaching a reading text for students by using translation technique. This study is carried out under consideration that mostly students of Junior High School still have low ability in translation. Whereas, the ability in translation impacts to the achievement of reading comprehension. This study is an action research involving thirty nine students of eight graders of class VIII-A of SMP N 24 Semarang as the subject of the study. Tests were used to gather data. The tests were pre-test, cycle 1 test, cycle 2 test, and post test. Besides, the questionnaire was also given to support the data. Translation technique was applied in reading class through discussion where students were active to share ideas each other. It makes English text can be easily understood. Besides, reading an English text which is a foreign language text enriches students’ vocabulary items. Translation technique shows the best meaning of a word based on the sentence. The students’ achievement in reading class also has improved moderately. It was provided by the average of the test result which shows significant improvement from the pre-test (70.51), cycle 1 test (77.68), cycle 2 test (80.97), and post-test (85.82). So, the result of students’ achievement from pre-test to the post-test has increased (15.31). From the findings, it is concluded that this action is necessary for students. Teachers can use the result of the research as knowledge, that translation technique can be used to improve students’ reading comprehension achievement.

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