The study investigated whether to teach English grammar or not. In doing the study, the writer used the experimental method by using a quasi-experimental design on two groups of students. The eighth-grade students of SMP N 9 Palembang became the population. The writer used the experimental method by using a quasi-experimental design on two groups of students. The total number of students was two hundred and seventy-eight. The sample was fifty-two students that were taken by using the purposive sampling technique. Twenty-six students were in the experimental group, and twenty-six students were in the control group. Tests and questionnaires became the instruments for collecting the data. The test was administered twice, i.e., as the pre-test and the post-test. The result showed that teaching English grammar through power teaching had an independent sample t-test analysis; it was found that t-obtained was 3.708 (df=50; p=0.025), the critical value of the test was 2.009, meaning the research hypothesis (H1) was accepted. It means there was a significant difference between ching and those who are taught through lecturing.
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