Putri Dewi Christyanti Pengarang

This experimental study aims to find out the effect of collaborative learning in improving students reading comprehension by using collaborative learning and individual learning. This experiment was implemented to the senior high school students’ with two classes, two hours per week, over 3 meetings. Seventy two students’ participated in this study, with 36 students’ in the experimental class and 36 students’ in the control class. The writer employed a pretest and posttest in reading skill with quasi-experimental design. The experimental class received learning used collaborative learning, whereas the control class received learning used individual learning. The data were analyzed by means, standard deviations, independent t-sample. Statistical result revealed that the experimental class did much better than the control class and consequently there is a significant effect of collaborative learning in improving reading comprehension on the tenth grade of SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang in academic year 2019/2020.