The purpose of the study was to know whether or not the use of small
group discussion technique effective to reading comprehension of narrative text of
tenth grade students Sultan Agung 1 Islamic High School Semarang in academic
year 2021/2022. This research was conducted at Sultan Agung1 Islamic High
School Semarang, located at Jalan Mataram No.657, Wonodri, Central Java,
Indonesia. This type of research is quasi experimental. The population of this
research was tenth graders of SMA Islam Sultan Agung 1 Semarang and the
sample were X MIPA 4 as the control class and MIPA 2 as the experimental class.
In collecting data, the researcher used a test named pre-test and post-test. The
result of this research indicated that the pre-test means score of the control class
was 56.42 and the means score of experimental class was 59.46. After giving
treatment, the post-test means score of the control class was 69.00 and the means
score of experimental class was 78.58. The result indicated that there was a
significant difference in the post-test of both classes. The result of the analysis ttest

that showed sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000 which lower than 0.05, it can be said
that H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted. Based on the result above, it can be
concluded that small group discussion technique was effective to improve
students reading comprehension of narrative text.

Keywords: Small Group Discussion, Reading Comprehension, Narrative text.