Kamilatun Nisa Pengarang

This research aimed to finding out the effect of Directed Reading Thinking Activity On The Students Reading Comprehension at tenth grade of SMAN 14 Kota Tangerang. This research was quantitative with the quasi-experimental research and supported by qualitative data. The population of the research is the tenth grade students with the total population is 137. The writer using the purposive sampling to choose the sample, and got 72 students to two classes: class experimental and class control. The experimantal class (X IPA-1 ) which was taught by Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) strategy, whereas the control class (X IPA-2) which was taught by the Conventional Instruction (CI). The writer used the written test to collect the data, and counting the data with the chi square formula to test data normality, fisher formula to test data homogeneity. The result of this research showed the students’ score of reading comprehension after taught by those strategy are good, because the mean value of posttest which was taught by DRTA is higher than students which was taught by CI strategy. So, the gained results of the research indicated that DRTA is an effective strategy on improving students’ reading comprehension.