Reading comprehension strategy enables students to cope with reading difficulty. It makes students be easier in comprehending text by applying some kinds of reading
comprehension strategy. Questioning is one of reading comprehension strategies that keep students‟ curiosity in reading. By maintaining curiosity, it is hoped that students
will be more interested in reading. Questioning as a reading comprehension strategy makes students be more
interested in reading. Then it is also aimed to question themselves whether they have comprehended the text before, during, and after reading. In addition, questioning as a
reading comprehension strategy is aimed to helpful for teachers. By knowing how important a reading comprehension strategy is, teachers have to introduce reading
strategy in advance before teaching reading. In this case, Questioning could be
introduced by teachers as a strategy to better comprehend the texts.
F. The Theoretical Hypothesis
Based on the theories were explained above, it can be posed a theoretical hypothesis as follows:
1. The questioning strategy would be well applied for students to improve their reading achievement.
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A.
Place and Time of the Research
This research was conducted at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. It is located at Jl.Ir. H. Juanda Number. 95 Ciputat, South Tangerang. Hence, this research was
conducted at 27
th
December 2013 by administering questionnaires to the sample of the study which are the first semester students of department of English
Education, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
B. Research Methodology and Design
The research method used in this research is a quantitative research. This research is aimed to know the influence
of questioning strategy on students’ achievement in reading.
Here the dependent variable is students’ achievement in reading while the independent variable is questioning strategy.
In addition, this research design is an ex post facto. It is Non experimental designs that are used to investigate causal relationships without the treatments.
Hence, it examines the possible changes of an effect, phenomena, and behavior caused by one event.
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It is belief that there are some factors that influence students’ achievement in reading, one of them is questioning strategy. As
consequences, this study is aimed at finding out whether questioning strategy influences
on students’ achievement in reading. Then, the method used to obtain the data is by using survey approach which
consists of administering questionnaires. “The questionnaires are written instrument to represent respondents’ characteristics with several question or
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Muhammad Mubasir, “Pengaruh Penggunaan Panel Peraga dan Wiring Sistem Penerangan Mobil Terhadap Hasil Belajar Kelistrikan Otomotif
”, Skripsi from IKIP Semarang, Semarang, p. 16, Published.
