Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics ISSN: 2707-756X DOI: 10.32996/jeltal Journal Homepage: www.al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/jeltal Page | 52 Implementing Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method to Enhance the Reading Comprehension of Indonesian EFL Learner Rafi’ah Nur English Language Education Department of Graduate Program Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare, Indonesia ✉ Corresponding Author: Rafi’ah Nur, E-mail: rafiahnur@yahoo.com ARTICLE INFORMATION ABSTRACT Received: 04 September 2021 Accepted: 25 October 2021 Published: 31 October 2021 DOI: 10.32996/jeltal.2021.3.11.7 The objective of this research is to reveal the application of the Cooperative, Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method to increase the reading comprehension of Indonesian EFL learners at junior schools. The CIRC method is one of the teaching methods that English teachers adjust to encourage their students to learn reading comprehension (Gupta & Ahuja, 2015); Zarei, 2012). One reason the researcher investigates reading is in the late time, the EFL learners are very less to spend their time on their reading habits (Derinalp, 2021). The EFL learners are very less to spend their time on their reading habits (Fan, 2016). Reading comprehension is one of the important skills of a language. Much information from the text form problematic issues (Riazi, 2017). It needs a complex skill to acquire this language skill. Therefore, the language learner who concerns with transforming information must prepare a strategy to work. This research applied a quasi-experimental method with a non-equivalent control group design. This study took the junior high school students in Parepare, Indonesia, as its subjects. Two groups of students were involved in the study, one as an experimental group and one as the control group. The data were collected using a comprehension test of the reading content. Management of analytical data was tested by the t-test and the accumulation of the percentage value. The results showed that CIRC improves the reading comprehension of Indonesian junior high students. KEYWORDS CIRC, Reading Comprehension, Language Teaching, Cooperative Learning, integrated learning 1. Introduction 1 Reading is exploring information activity in a particular proposes which are expected to engage (St Clair et al., 2017). People have some reasons to read an article in their activity, for instance, to collect information and see the truth or (verification) of information conveyed through the results of critical thinking by the author. The readers also carry out a communication process through the reading method. It is intended to increase the quality of their language understanding of an article presentation. Reading as a complex language skill operates maximum cognitive process and some aspect of communication to have information in the task of text (Wicramaarachchi, 2016). In connecting learners' minds to the text material, the learners must empower their language competencies to comprehend the critical information presented by the writer (Mudra, 2020). The same idea was from Grabe and Stoller (2011), who said that reading activity is formally used to search for simple information or integrate information and learn information through text. Further, Castle et al. (2018) stated that the students should be in good preparation for reading activities when they plan to go to university. Reading activities involves people grasping ideas from the text. Richards (2010) reveals that perceiving a written text to comprehend the contents can be done in silence when dealing with reading activities. This process requires comprehension. Regarding comprehension in reading, Wooley (2011) also commented that reading activity is an attempt to get meaning from the text. For that reason, reading aims to get a thorough understanding of the things described in the paragraph rather than gaining understanding or meaning on a pre-sentence or word-by-word basis. Copyright: © 2021 the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Published by Al-Kindi Centre for Research and Development, London, United Kingdom.