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Abstract name : putri ace riaula ramadhona student no. : 1006102050060 study program : english education title : students’ achievements on the use of reciprocal teaching method in reading comprehension (a qualitative study at sman 6 banda aceh) keywords : training, reading comprehension, students’ achievements, reciprocal teaching method this qualitative study was conducted with the aims to discover the process of reciprocal teaching in reading classroom, to find out students’ achievements after four comprehension strategies trainings of reciprocal teaching method given, and students’ perceptions of this method. the subjects were 24 students of twelve-grade. observation, test, document, and interview were done to collect the data needed. during the process of trainings, students were more active and productive in reading classroom. additionally, with the use of reciprocal teaching, students’ achievements of reading comprehension aspects have progress. the number of high level students has been increased meanwhile low level students decreased. the result also showed students prefer this method to be used during teaching-learning reading compared to the conventional one. based on the findings, the teacher should consider using this method in teaching reading and maintain students to apply four comprehension strategies. in addition, the other researcher should do a further study of students’ perspective on two strategies in reciprocal. aside from solving students’ and teacher’s problems in reading class, reciprocal teaching helps students train themselves to be independent readers.