THE EFFECT OF USING QUESTIONING STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

This study aims at investigating the effect of Questioning Strategies on students’
reading comprehension in narrative text. This study was conducted by using
experimental research design. The population of the study was the students of
grade VIII of SMP Negeri 5 Tebing Tinggi in the academic year 2015/2016,
which consisted of 9 parallel classes. Two classes were taken as the sample by
applying lottery technique and each groups consisted of 30 students. The sample
was divided into two groups. The class VIII-5 was experimental group and class
VIII-7 was control group. The Experimental group was taught by applying
questioning strategies; otherwise the control group was taught by using
conventional strategy. The data of the study were obtained by objectives test. To
determine the reliability of the test, KR-20 formula was used. The data calculation
showed that the coefficient of reliability of the test was 0.62. It showed that the
test was reliable and the reliability was substantial. The data were analyzed by
applying t-test formula. After the data were analyzed, the result of the study
showed that t-observed (4.29) was higher than t-table (2.00) (t-observed > t-table)
at the level of significance of α = 0.05 and at the degree of freedom (df) = 58.
Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and hypothesis alternative (Ha) is
accepted. It means that there is significant effect of questioning strategies on
students’ reading comprehension in narrative text.