THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE AND THEIR ENGLISH WRITING SKILL (A Study on the Fourth Semester Students of the English Education Study Program at Universitas Bengkulu

The aim of this research was to find out the correlation of students’ perception of Google
Translate and their writing skill. This research was a correlational research. The population of
this research was the Fourth Semester English Education Study Program Students of
Universitas Bengkulu. The samples were taken by using total sampling. There were 74
students as the samples from two classes of Paragraph Writing subject. There were two
research instruments used in this research, Questionnaire and Documentation of student
writing score. In analysis data, the researcher used Correlation Product Moment formula
developed by Carl Pearson and the researcher using statistical analysis program SPSS. Based
on the data analysis, it was found that the r-count was 0.469. It means that the correlation
between the students’ perception of Google Translate and their writing skill was moderate.
As a result of this, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho)
was rejected. Since r-count 0.469 was higher than the r-table 0.296, the correlation was
significant. Based on the research finding, it can be concluded that there was a moderate
correlation between students’ perception of Google Translate and their writing skill. It means
that Google Translate was not a really dominant factor that affects writing skill of the fourth
semester students of the English Education Study Program of Universitas Bengkulu.