The purposes of this study are (1) to examine differences in the ability of students who are taught by using DRTA strategy with students who are taught by SQ3R strategy in understanding the text, (2) to examine the effect of DRTA strategy oni the ability of students in understanding the content of the reading. The design of this study was two pertest group post-test design. In this study, the experimental group and the control group were measured before and after receiving treatment. The Data analysis by using t-test showed that (1) the results of the data analysis for posttest of DRTA and SQ3R strategy was 3.559 with a significance level of 0.001 (0.001<0.05), it can be concluded that there was significant difference between the result of post-test of DRTA strategy with the results of post-test of SQ3R strategy, (2) the results of the pretest and posttest analysis of DRTA strategy was 0.338 (0.038<0.05), it means that there was the influence of DRTA strategy on the students' reading comprehension. Article visualizations
