Author (Penulis)

IKA PRASETYAWATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0095

Abstract

Reading is an important skill in learning English. On the other hand, comprehension is a process is an activity to understand the text. There are many problem in reading comprehension, such as to find main idea, determining the author’s purposes, making inference, paraphrasing and summarizing. Based on the problems above, the teacher should used suitable strategy to make the students understand the material easily. So using questioning strategy can be alternative for teacher to teaching reading comprehension. This research is aimed to find out the effect of questioning strategy to the students’ reading comprehension to the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015. The participants were selected at eighth grade, especially VIIIB class that consists of 29 students. The research approach that is used in this study is quantitative, and the technique which used in one group pre test and post test design. The strategy which used is Questioning Strategy. The researcher chose essay test items as the instruments of the research. This research showed of t-score (13, 85) which is higher than t-table (2,756) in the level of significance 1%. it was the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that there is significant effect Questioning Strategy to the students’ reading comprehension at Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015. Based on the conclusion above, the researcher suggests that: The English teacher should use questioning strategy in teaching reading comprehension to improve students confident to ask question, and also the teachers should make the students more active, motivated and can easy in accept the material by using questioning strategy. For the other researchers are expected to be able to excavate deeply about the useful of strategy in teaching and learning English especially in using questioning strategy. Keyword: Reading, Reading Comprehension, Questioning Strategy.

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-06

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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