The Effectiveness Of Using Questioning Strategy In Students’ reading comprehension At MTs N Bandung

Key words: Effectiveness, Questioning strategy, and Reading comprehension. Dealing with learning English, students are always faced by English reading text at school. But they have some problems within. The students got difficulties if teacher does not build their background knowledge at the beginning about the text. To acquire the students reading comprehension is needed to stimulate the students mind and corrective feedback. Thus, study researcher will try to apply questioning strategy. This study aims at finding out the result of the students’ reading comprehension in eighth grade students of MTs Negeri Bandung through classroom questioning strategy. The objectives of the researcher are: to know how the score of students reading comprehension who were taught before using questioning strategy, to know how the score of students reading comprehension who were taught after using questioning strategy and to know significant the students’ score of reading comprehension using questioning strategy. The researcher used quantitative approach in the experimental research and used test technique. The population in this research is the eighth grade students of MTs Negeri Bandung in academic year 2013/2014. The researcher took 80 students from 261 students as the sampling. The researcher compares two groups of sample and gives them pre-test before treatment and post-test after the treatment. This research shows results as follow: first, teaching reading recount text by questioning strategy is more effective than teaching reading recount text comprehension without questioning strategy to improve students‟ reading comprehension. Second, The result of the research in this study is the mean score of the post-test from the experimental group is higher (70,2) than post-test from control group (65,2). So, based on the explanation above, the researcher concludes that using of questioning strategy is effective in reading recount text comprehension than students who are taught without using of questioning strategy. The score of t-test is 8.123 and the score of the score of t table is 1.668.. It means that the score of t-test is higher than score of t-table. So, it can be conclude that teaching through questioning is effective than without using questioning strategy