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ABSTRACT Yuni Astria: 2313.036, “Students’ Ability in Translating Thematic Structure: Theme And Rheme from English To Indonesian by the Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department of IAIN Bukittinggi 2016/2017”. A Thesis, State Islamic Institute Bukittinggi (IAIN). This research was done because the researcher found the several problems in students’ translation from English into Indonesian based on thematic structure: theme and rheme. Based on preliminary test on translation course the researcher found that some students did not comprehend about thematic structure and failed in translating, identifying the themes from English into Indonesian since the students consider that theme and rheme are only about subject and predicate. Due to this phenomenon, the researcher executed the research in order to know about students’ ability in translating thematic structure: theme and rheme from English into Indonesian by the sixth semester of English Education Department at IAIN Bukittinggi 2016/2017. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative. The respondents of the research were at the sixth semester in IAIN Bukittinggi 2016/2017. The researcher used random sampling by taking 20% from all classes as the sample. Therefore, the researcher took 24 students as the sample which consist of students A, B, C, and D, while technique of data aggregation were the translation test, a test that consisted of 6 sentences from English into Indonesian. The finding reveals that there was no student who categorized into excellent level , 7 students with the percentage 29% who were categorized into good level, 6 students (25%) who were categorized into fair level and 11 students (46%) who were categorized into poor level. Meanwhile, based on the acceptability criteria there was also no students categorized into excellent level, 5 students with the percentage 21% who were categorized into good level, 3 students (12%) who were categorized into fair level, and 16 students (67%) who were categorized into poor level in translating English into Indonesian. Hence, based on criteria of accuracy can be concluded that the students were poor level and based on acceptability category the students were poor also in translating theme and rheme from English into Indonesian.