AN ANALYSIS ON THE ABILITY OF USING CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION IN PARAGRAPH WRITING OF THE GRADE EIGHT STUDENTS AT MTS ASHRI JEMBER IN THE 2010/2011 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Students at the beginning level usually learn the basic conventions of writing such as identify and write down letters, words, and simple sentence, as well as learning spelling and punctuation conventions. Gebhard (1996) classifies 3 types of activities to teach these basic conventions. First, the basic activity is tracing letters, words, and sentences. This activity can teach students letter recognition and discrimination, word recognition and basic spelling, punctuation an capitalization rules. The teacher can ask the students to saying the letters and words aloud as they trace them.