233 Linguistic, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal Volume 6 Nomor 2, Januari-Juni 2023 e-ISSN : 2597-3819 p-ISSN : 2597-9248 DOI : https://doi.org/10.31539/leea.v6i2.5814 THE IMPLICATION OF COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) TECHNIQUE ON ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION FOR MADRASAH ALIYAH STUDENTS M. Arif Rahman Hakim 1 UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu Pengky Kemadi Amrulin 2 UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu Fera Zasrianita 3 UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu Yuda Septian Kurniawan 4 STIESNU Bengkulu arifelsiradj@mail.uinfasbengkulu.ac.id 1 Submit, 21-03-2023 Accepted, 21-06-2023 Publish, 22-06-2023 ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to find out whether or not t h e r e was an effect of the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Technique on Students' Reading Comprehension in understanding the Narrative text at MA Pancasila Bengkulu City. In this study, the researcher used a Quasi-Experimental research, nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group. The population of this research was the tenth-grade students at MA Panacasila Bengkulu. The sample was X MIPA.1, which was treated as an experimental class and taught by using CIRC Technique, and X MIPA.2 was treated as a control class and taught by using a conventional strategy. There were 30 students who were sampled as 19 experimental classes and 19 control classes. To determine the sample, the researcher used the Total sampling technique. In the process of data collection, the researcher used tests and documentation as research instruments. The test take s t h e form of multiple choice containing 20 questions. The test is given to both experimental and control classes as pre-test and post-test. The data from the pre- test and post-test were examined using the t-test. The result of this research showed that the student's reading comprehension test for the experimental class mean score was 54.21, while the control class was 44.47, and post-test findings revealed that the experimental class had an average value of 80.79, while the control class had an average value of 71.58. The hypothesis test results show that the output of the independent sample t-test (sig. 2-tailed) is 0.001, which is lower than 0.05. So, Ho was rejected, and Ha was accepted. In brief, it can be concluded that Cooperative