The aims of this research were: 1) to find out how good the
students’ activities in making personal vocabulary notes are ; 2) to find out
how good the students’ translation competence is; 3) to find out whether
there is correlation between students’ personal vocabulary notes and their
translation achievement.
In this research, the writer used descriptive correlation method. The
writer used documentary and questionnaire to collect the data of students’
personal vocabulary notes and their translation competence. The
population was the fifth semester students of the English Department of
Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto academic year 2011/2012,
consisting 165 students. Using random sampling technique, the writer took
25% from the population as sample.
The result of this research showed that the students’ personal
vocabulary notes was 64.9% and their translation competence was 63.8%,
they belong to category good. The correlation coefficient result (r- result)
was 0.408. it was higher than r-table for N=41 with level significance of
α= 0.05 (r-table= 0.308). it means that the writer’s hypothesis was
accepted that there is a significant correlation between personal vocabulary
notes and translation competence at fifth semester of the English
Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto academic year
2011/2012.