Abstract name : mirna damayanti student no : 1006102020051 study program : english education title : the implementation of team game tournament in teaching reading comprehension (a descriptive qualitative study at smpn 3 mutiara, pidie) keywords: team game tournament, reading comprehension, responses this qualitative research was conducted to observe the implementation of team game tournament in teaching reading comprehension and the teacher’s responses at smpn 3 mutiara, pidie. the data were collected through observation, interview and document analysis. the observation lists and interview item were adapted from slavin (1990) and interview items were adapted from brown (2000); wong (2011); sari (2003); devrie (2006); o’ mahony (2006) and rixon (1992). the subject of this research was students and a teacher of second grade class of smpn 3 mutiara, pidie, and they were chosen purposively. the data were analyzed by using naration form. from the result of the data