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.