The Effect of Collaborative Learning Technique on Students’ Reading Comprehension

This research was aimed at testing the effect of collaborative learning technique on students' reading comprehension and it was a kind of quasi-experimental research. The population of this research was the tenth grade of SMKN 1 Pariaman enrolled on 2018/2019 academic year.The samples were X TMI1 as experimental class and X TMI2 as control class. During the treatment, students in experimental class used collaborative learning technique, while students in control class used small group discussion technique.The reading test was used to collect the data of the research. The data were analyzed by using t-test for hypothesis testing. The analysis of the test result showed that the student of experimental class was higher than control class. The result shows that collaborative learning produced better reading comprehension ability of analytical exposition text of the students than small group discussion technique.