Sarlota Kristania L. 2021. Using reciprocal Teaching to Improve Students Reading Comprehension at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 6 Palopo (Supervised by Sri Damayanti and Arni Irhani Asmin).

This study to determine whether the use of reciprocal teaching is effective or not for teaching reading in class X SMA Negeri 6 Palopo. This study used pre-
experimental research and it was carried out in 6 meetings consisted of pretest,
treatments and posttest. The pretest and posttest were carried out offline and the
treatment was carried out online. The population of this study was 193 students of
SMA Negeri 6 Palopo. In determining the sample, the researcher used a random
sampling technique which contained 23 samples. To analyze the data, researcher
used the SPSS version 20 program. The results of this study showed a less
significant difference, the pretest score was 33.52% and categorized as very poor,
while posttest was 49.30% and categorized as poor. The pretest and posttest were
poor, so the research concluded that reciprocal teaching is not effective in teaching
reading comprehension in online class.