This study was an experimental investigation on the effects of a new type of cooperative learning (CL) method namely 'Competitive Team-Based Learning' (CTBL), developed by Hosseini (2009, 2012, 2018) at Mashhad Education Office in Iran, and 'Reciprocal Teaching of Reading' (RTR), developed by Palinscar, at the University of Michigan, and Brown (1985), at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL intermediate students. It was also tried to measure the attitude of the participants towards these methods before and after the study.