THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE APPLICATION OF GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD AND THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN TRANSLATING THE ENGLISH RECOUNT TEXT INTO INDONESIAN AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 15 KOTA CIREBON

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SULAIMAN: “THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE APPLICATION OF GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD AND THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN TRANSLATING THE ENGLISH RECOUNT TEXT INTO INDONESIAN AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 15 KOTA CIREBON” In the teaching and learning activity of English, the students are demanded not only to have the four basic skills of English like reading, writing, speaking and listening but they also must be able in translating the text and mastering the English grammar properly. But, the students sometimes still have the problem in translating and mastering the grammar. So, it’s very likely that method of teaching holds the very important role in achieving the students’ competence in translating. The aims of this research are to find out the data from the students such as the students’ response on the application of Grammar Translation Method when used in learning translation (X variable), the students’ competence in translating the English recount text into Indonesian before and after using Grammar Translation Method (Y variable), and the correlation between the application of Grammar Translation Method and the students’ competence in translating the English recount text into Indonesian (the correlation between X variable and Y variable). The techniques of collecting data used in this thesis were observation, interview, questionnaire, and test, and the technique used to obtain the quantitative data here was the formula of Product Moment Correlation by Pearson. After interviewing the students, the writer found that most of students felt that after using Grammar Translation Method, their understanding in English grammar become deeper and better and it was very useful to help them in translating the text like recount text. Then, after observing and doing the research, the writer found that the result of X variable was positive because their average score was 81. And the result of Y variable before and after using Grammar Translation Method showed a significant change, it can be seen from the average of 72 to be the average of 83. After getting the data, the data was analyzed by using the formula of product Moment Correlation by Pearson. After being analyzed, the writer found that the correlation between X variable and Y was 0.73 and after consulted with the table of “r” product moment, it showed that there was strong or high correlation between the variables. So, based on the result of explanation and supported with the data above, it can be concluded that Grammar Translation Method is one of the methods that can be used by the teachers in developing their students’ skill in translating the recount text