The correlation between students' interest on online reading activity and students' translation ability

Interest is paying attention and enjoying an activity. The students do anything if they are interested and do not do anything if they are uninterested. Therefore, interest is an important aspect of motivation that influences attention, learning, thinking and performance of the students. Just like in reading, students prefer to do online reading because they can read wherever and whenever they want. However, when they read online information, they frequently jump around from source to source until become the new reading. The more they read online, the more likely they were to move quickly. In a situation, students who lacking vocabularies they got difficulties in understanding the content. However, the students do translation that involves the transfer of meaning contained in one set of language sign through component use of dictionary. This study focuses on knowing and finding the correlation between students’ interest on online reading and students’ translation ability. This study is quantitative research, especially a correlational study. In purpose to answer the research question the researcher collected the data using translation test to measure the skill, knowledge or ability and questionnaire to find numerical data of students’ interest on online reading. The samples of this study are students’ in the second semester of English Teacher Education Department at UIN SunanAmpel Surabaya. The findings indicate that there is correlation between students’ interest on online reading and students’ translation ability. The total score from both variables is calculated with the Pearson Product Moment Correlation, using SPSS 16.0 for windows. The value of the Spearmans’ is found = 0.033. It means that students’ reading interest and translation ability very weak each other variable and degree of correlation is low. The result affirmed theory correlation Spearmans’ that if significance correlation >0.05 it has not correlation between two variables. Moreover, the null hypothesis (Ho) of this study which states that there is no correlation between students’ reading interest on online reading and students’ translation ability, is not accepted.