Teaching Punctuation through Descriptive Text to the Grade Eight Students

Abstract

This study used a pre-experimental design to examine whether or not teaching punctuation to grade 8 students at SMPN 6 Palu through descriptive text could result in improved sentence punctuation. SMPN 6 Palu's eighth-grade students made up the study's sample population. The researcher used a pretest and post-test to gather data, assessing the students' proficiency with punctuation both before and after the intervention. The test's outcome reveals that students' post-test mean scores (72.11) were higher than their pretest scores (59.89). Using descriptive text in teaching punctuation can help grade eight students at SMPN 6 Palu to punctuate correctly, according to the hypothesis test results.