Abstract :
The objective of the study was to find out whether or not there was a significant
difference in reading comprehension achievement between the tenth grade students of
MA Al-Fatah Palembang who were taught by using LRD strategy and those who were
not. The population of the study was the tenth grade students of MA Al-Fatah
Palembang in the academic year of 2015/2016. In this study, the writer used quasi
experimental design. The sample of the study was taken from purposive sampling. The
writer selected X.1 and X.4 as the sample. It consisted of 60 students, thirty students for
control group and thirty students for experimental group. This study was conducted for
about almost two months. There were twelve meetings which spent 80 minutes (2 x 40
minutes) in each meeting. The instrument used in collecting the data was multiple
choices reading comprehension test. The test was administered twice, as the pre-test and
post-test for both control and experimental group. The result of the test were analyzed
by using independent sample t-test, from the result of independent sample t-test, it was
found that there were a significant difference from the students? posttest experimental
and control group, since the p-output was lower than 0.05 and the t-value was higher
than t-table (1.672). It means that teaching narrative reading comprehension by using
LRD strategy had a significant effect on the students? reading comprehension
achievement.