Marita Safitri
Universitas Bandar Lampung

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The Correlation Between the Students’ Past Tense Mastery and Their Ability in Translating Narrative Texts Marita Safitri
International Conference on Education and Language (ICEL) Vol 2 (2014): 2nd ICEL 2014
Publisher : Bandar Lampung University (UBL)

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Most students got confused and difficulty when translating from Indonesian into English. They were confused to useactive voice or passive voice in past tense to state past activities. Therefore, to solve the problem they needed to be trained to use past tense regularly. One of the ways was by asking them to translate Indonesian narrative texts into English. The objective of this research was to find out the correlation between the students’ past tense mastery and their ability in translating narrative texts of grade eleven students of SMAN 1 Pagelaran. Two kinds of tests were administered. They were grammatical test and translation test. In the grammatical test, multiple choice tests were used, while in translation test, each student was asked to translate a kind of narrative text into English.  The method of this research was the correlational research. Data were analyzed using r-Product Moment. The result of was 0.772. The p-value in 5% was 0.355 and in 1% was 0.456. So, the result showed that there was a significant correlation between the students’ past tense mastery and their ability in translating narrative texts of grade eleven students of SMAN 1 Pagelaran. Based on the result of the research, it was important both for the English teachers and the students to realize one of the factors that gave positive contribution to the students’ ability in translating narrative texts was their past tense mastery.  
LEARNERS’ STRATEGIES IN IMPROVING THEIR VOCABULARY MASTERY Marita Safitri
LINGUISTIKA Vol 9, No 2 (2018): Oktober
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Learners frequently do not care about the strategies they use to improve their vocabulary mastery. On the other hand, a strategy is important in learning and increasing for both vocabulary and knowledge. Therefore, the objective of this research is to find out the strategies that the students adopt to improve their vocabulary mastery. A survey method was used in this research. A questionnaire was used based on Vocabulary Learning Strategy Questionnaires (VLSQ) that is designed by Schmitt’s Taxonomy. It consisted of 25 items. Data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The results showed that the students in this survey are medium strategy users and the metacognitive strategy is the strategy the students of Academy of Foreign Language of Sinema Yogyakarta mostly adopt to improve their vocabulary mastery. It is followed by memory, determination, social (discovery), cognitive and the least is social (consolidation). In the context of English as Foreign Language students, it is suggested to the students and other readers to balance the five strategies in applying them both in learning and in improving their vocabulary mastery.