Abstract name : nuril khaira students no. : 1206102020106 study program : english education title : implementing buzz groups technique in teaching reading comprehension at junior high school (an experimental study at the second year students of smpn 17 banda aceh) keywords: buzz groups technique, reading comprehension, improvement. the objective of this study is to know significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension after implementing buzz groups technique. the population was all of the second year students of smpn 17 banda aceh. the sample was the students of class viii-2 (experimental class) and viii-7 (control class). the researcher used true experimental design of pre-test and post-test control group design. the researcher administered pre-test, treatment and post-test to collect the data. the findings indicated that there was an improvement of students’ achievement in the experimental class. as the researcher used gain-score calculation, the mean score of