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Abstract name : zahratul muna student no : 1006102050047 study program : english education title : the use of group investigation technique in improving students’ reading comprehension (an experimental study at the second grade students of man rukoh banda aceh keywords: reading comprehension, group investigation technique, hortatory exposition text this study based on phenomena in school that students had difficulty in reading comprehension especially in finding main idea, stated information, reference, inference and understanding vocabulary. this research was conducted to know whether students could improve their reading comprehension through group investigation technique. in obtaining the data, the researcher did an experimental study at the second grade students of man rukoh banda aceh which involved 25 students in class xi ia 3. this study used quantitative approach through an experimental method, one group pre-test post-test design. the result shows that there was a significant improvement on students’ reading comprehension by applying group investigation technique. it was found by comparing pre-test and post-test score. the mean score of pre-test was 52.6. meanwhile, the mean score of post-test was 77.2. moreover, the reading comprehension skill was also increased. among the five skills, namely; main idea, stated information, reference, inference and vocabulary, the highest increasing score was vocabulary. furthermore, the result of t-test indicated that the alternative hypothesis is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected. it is revealed from the calculation of t- test (9.685) is higher than t-table (2.064). it means that group investigation technique improves students’ reading comprehension.