The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of reciprocal teaching
in teaching reading comprehension. This research used quasi experimental
method was conducted in MtsMa‟arif NU 1 Jatilawang. There were 40 students
in class VIII A as the experimental class and 40 students in in class VIII B as the
control class. Both classes were taught with the same learning content. However,
the experiment got the treatment with Reciprocal Teaching technique and the
control class was taught without Reciprocal Teaching technique. The pre-test
and post-test were tested to both classes. There were 30 items of multiple
choices for the pre-test and 30 items of multiple choices for the post-test to know
students‟ ability in reading comprehension. The result of this research showed
that there was a significant difference of the students‟ ability in mastering a text
between the students who were taught using Reciprocal Teaching and those who
were taught without Reciprocal Teaching. It could be seen on the result of
computation of t-test, where t-test result is 2.378 and t-table is 1.664 at the
significant level α = 0.05 in df = 78. The result was higher than t-table
(2.378>1.664). It meant that the hypothesis that Reciprocal Teaching technique
was effective in teaching reading comprehension was accepted.