Kemampuan Siswa Sekolah Dasar Dalam Memahami Penggunaan Tanda Baca Di Kelas IV SD Negeri Kecamatan Tampan

Abstract

Kemampuan Siswa Sekolah Dasar Dalam Memahami Penggunaan Tanda Baca Di Kelas IV SD Negeri Kecamatan Tampan Oleh Sukhino Hatta1 , Otang Kurniaman,2 , Eddy Noviana,3 ABSTRACT The problem of this research is to find out the ability of students in comprehending the use of punctuation. The formulation of the problem is “How does the SD Negeri Kecamatan Tampan fourth grade students’ ability in comprehending the punctuation?”. The objective of this research is to describe the students’ ability in using the punctuation. The objects of this research were 321 fourth grade students of SD Negeri Kecamatan Tampan. Simple random sampling is the technique used to collect the data, with 1648 students of total sample. The data was collected by using performance assessment and observation. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the quality of the students in SD Negeri Kecamatan Tampan. The result revealed that the students’ average score in using punctuation were 55.84 point or in the “good” category. From the seven indicators the writer explained; 1) full stop with 55.01 point in “enough” category, 2) comma with 54.82 point in “mediocre” category, 3) colon with 59.80 point with “enough” category, 4) dashes with 67.28 point in “enough” category, 5) question mark with 62.14 point in “enough” category, 6) exclamation with 58.66 point in “enough” category, and 7) apostrophe with 33.17 point in “mediocre” category.