Abstract name : shafura student no : 1106102020096 study program : english education title : the use of three minute pause strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension in recount text. (an experimental research at sman 8 banda aceh) key words: reading comprehension, three minute pause strategy, recount text one of the difficulties in learning english for senior high school students’ is reading comprehension. to overcome these problems and to improve the students’ reading comprehension, teachers can apply a creative strategy such as three minute pause strategy. this study was to find out whether the use of three minute pause strategy can improve students’ reading comprehension and whether there were significant improvements in main idea, detail information and vocabulary after the strategy was implemented. the sample of this one-group pre-test post-test study design was a class in the first grade of sman 8 banda aceh. the test was a reading text in