This research aimed to determine the correlation between students’ reading interest on short story and students’ translation ability. This is a quantitative research using the correlation method. Data were collected from online questionnaires and test. This research uses bivariate correlation analysis as a research design. Respondents in this research were 8th grade students of SMPIT Al-Ibrah of the 2020/2021 academic year in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. This study found that students’ reading interest on short story had a positive and significant correlation to students’ translation ability with a rxy value of 0.969> 0.349 (rtable value) at the level of significance 0.05.
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