Improving Reading Comprehension

Everybody know that language cannot be apart from human life. People need language for communication with each other. By using language, people can express their ideas and feeling. Therefore, language has a central role in student¿s social and emotional development.It can support them in learning all subject matters. Reading is one of language skills which is very important to be learnt by students. Through this activity, students can improve their own language and experience. The objective of the research is to find out the improvement of the student¿s reading comprehension after the researcher applies Experience-Text-Relationship (ETR) Method at the tenth grade office administration students of SMK Negeri 1 Pinrang. The research design in this research was pre-experimental method with one group pre-test, treatment and post-test. The population in this research was the tenth grade students office administration students of SMK Negeri 1 Pinrang consist of 105 students. The sample of this research was Class X Ap2 consist of 35 students.