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  • This research was aimed to find out whether there was a significant effect of using Choral Reading Method on students’ reading comprehension understanding and their vocabulary mastery at Islamic Junior High School of BoardingSchool Technology of Pekanbaru. This research was a Quasi-Experimental research. The subject of the research was the students of class VIII at Islamic Junior High School BoardingSchool Technology Pekanbaru, involving two classes: 1 experiment class and 1 control class. The samples in this research were 40 students taken from 102 population. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, questionnaire, and observation, then they were analyzed by independent Statistic Sample t-test and paired sample t-test by using Effect Size Formula. Finally, the researcher found that the significant scores were 0.000 and 0.000 which were smaller than p (0.005). It means that there was a significant effect of using Choral Reading Method toward students’ reading comprehension understanding and their vocabulary in the pretest and posttest in experiment class. Besides that, the score of eta square was 0.88 and 0.84. In other words, there was a significant effect of using Choral Reading Method toward students’ reading comprehension understanding and their vocabulary mastery on the narrative text, and the effect was categorized as a medium effect. The conclusion was that Choral Reading Method could be applied to the learning of reading and vocabulary mastery at Islamic Junior High School of BoardingSchool Technology of Pekanbaru.