The Use of Questioning Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This research is a classroom action research which was conducted at SMA
Muhammadiyah Jember. It is aimed at improving students’ reading comprehension
by the use of questioning technique. The second grade students were taken
as the subjects of the research. They are all thirty-two students. The data were
collected from in-depth-interview during the process of teaching and learning
and test which was given in the end of the process. In the first cycle, there were
twenty students (62.5%) who gain the criteria of success. Meanwhile, in the
second cycle, twenty-six students (81.25%) gain the target score. This showed
that the students were successful in reading comprehension class. The conclusion
of the study is that the use of Questioning Strategy can improve the second
grade students’ reading comprehension of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Jember.
Keywords: reading comprehension, questioning strategy.