The Implementation of Teaching Reading Comprehension through Small Group Discussion Method to Tenth Grade Students at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh.

Reading is an active and interactive activity to reproduce the word mentally and vocally. In order to achive the goal, the comprehension ability in reading is needed. In solving the problem, the researcher used Small Group Discussion method. The objective of this study was to to find out the significant difference in the implementation of Small Group Discussion method in teaching reading comprehensionto tenth grade students at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. The Quantitative methods were used in this study to answer the research questions. The study involved 46 students as the participants, and they were divided into two classes; experimental and control class. The data of the study were obtained through pre-test, post-test and questionnaire. The data from the pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using independent t-test from the SPSS 17.0 for windows. According to the results of the study, significance value is lower than 0.05 (p=0.000<0.05), which indicates that the implementation of SGD method effectively improved students’ reading comprehension. Moreover, based on the analysis of the questionnaire, most of the students provided positive response to SGD method. They agreed that SGD method ease them to understand the lesson, encourage them to be more active and creative in the class, and in group they got more information. ease them to understand the lesson, encourage them to be more active and creative in the class, and in group they got more information.